"Since they have been incorporated into the family of Abraham these penguins share the curse of Eve, and they know that they are naked, a thing of which they were ignorant before.

And it is high time to clothe them, for they are losing the down that remained on them after their metamorphosis." "It is true," said Magis as he cast his eyes over the coast where the penguins were to be seen looking for shrimps, gathering mussels, singing, or sleeping, "they are naked.

But do you not think, father, that it would be better to leave them naked?
Why clothe them?
When they wear clothes and are under the moral law they will assume an immense pride, a vile hypocrisy, and an excessive cruelty." "Is it possible, my son," sighed the old man, "that you understand so badly the effects of the moral law to which even the heathen submit ?" "The moral law," answered Magis, "forces men who are beasts to live otherwise than beasts, a thine that doubtless puts a constraint upon them, but that also flatters and reassures them; and as they are proud, cowardly, and covetous of pleasure, they willingly submit to restraints that tickle their vanity and on which they found both their present security and the hope of their future happiness.

That is the principle of all morality.

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