Excerpt from The Moral Self, Its Nature and Development

As a result of several years' experience of lecturing on Ethics to teachers in training, we have felt the need for a text-book which would meet the special requirements of such students. In a course which rarely extends over thirty hours it is im possible to deal comprehensively with the subject. Our experience has been that it is better to emphasize the main principles than to obscure the operation of these by too much attention to detail. For this reason we have attempted to lay down what we consider to be the essentials of moral education - the nature and development of moral character.

As the book is primarily intended to be read by students in Training Colleges as a background for the lectures and as a basis for discussion in tutorials, we have considered it advisable to treat many aspects of the subject more brie¿y and dogmatically than we would otherwise have wished. We h0pe, however, that, as a general introduction, the book will be found useful, not only by teachers in training, but by other students of Ethics.

We wish to express our indebtedness to Professor Lindsay for writing the Foreword, and to our colleague, Mr. Idris W. Phillips, who read the whole of the book in manuscript and made many valuable suggestions.

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