I also hold that, just as the space intuition responds to the exact demonstrations of geometry, and has its rough conclusions interpreted and verified by them, so will moral intuitions respond to the demonstrations of moral science, and will have their rough conclusions interpreted and verified by them." {203} Against this view of Mr.Herbert Spencer, Mr.Hutton objects--"1.

That even as regards Mr.Spencer's illustration from geometrical intuitions, his process would be totally inadequate, since you could not deduce the necessary space intuition of which he speaks from any possible accumulations of familiarity with space relations....

We cannot _inherit_ more than our fathers _had_: no amount of experience of facts, however universal, can give rise to that particular characteristic of intuitions and _a priori_ ideas, which compels us to deny the possibility that in any other world, however otherwise different, our experience (as to space relations) could be otherwise.
"2.

That the case of moral intuitions is very much stronger.
"3.

That if Mr.Spencer's theory accounts for anything, it accounts not for the deepening of a sense of utility and inutility into right and wrong, but for the drying up of the sense of utility and inutility into mere inherent tendencies, which would exercise over us not _more_ authority but _less_, than a rational sense of utilitarian issues.
"4.