The difference between manners and morals of the higher order is due simply to the more pressing need, in the case of our most serious duties, of a reflective sanction, a "moral sense," to break us in to the common service.

It is no easy task to keep legal and religious penalties or rewards out of the reckoning, when trying to frame an estimate of what the notions of right and wrong, prevalent in a given society, amount to in themselves; nevertheless, it is worth doing, and valuable collections of material exist to aid the work.
The facts about education, which even amongst rude peoples is often carried on far into manhood, throw much light on this problem.

So do the moralizings embodied the traditional lore of the folk--the proverbs, the beast-fables, the stories of heroes.
There remains the individual to be studied in himself.

If the individual be ignored by social science, as would sometimes appear to be the case, so much the worse for social science, which, to a corresponding extent, falls short of being truly anthropological.
Throughout the history of man, our beginner should be on the look-out for the signs, and the effects, of personal initiative.

Freedom of choice, of course, is limited by what there is to choose from; so that the development of what may be termed social opportunity should be concurrently reviewed.