Excerpt from The Foundations of Ethics
He was in every respect a radical - radical in his Hedonism, radical in his belief in free energy of volition, radical in his disbelief that a science of Ethics can be framed. However much one may dissent from any or all of his views - and several of them I am myself unable to share - one can not, I think, fail to find the treatise stimulating and suggestive in a remarkable degree. Nor can one escape a pang of regret that so genuine a philosopher, so strenuous yet so kind a man, should have had no more time allotted him than just to overcome the material difficulties that harassed his youth, and to show us one glimpse of his quality, and then be snatched away.
My own acquaintance with Maude was limited to his last two college years. His intimate friend, the Reverend Charles S. Murkland, of Manchester, N. H., has kindly sent me a short account of his life, which I now append.
"John Edward Maude illustrated throughout his worldly career that faculty of forceful attention which, in his own view, is the supremely important element in ethics and in life. His was one of those many lives in which resoluteness of purpose triumphs over outward circumstances and physical infirmity. Unlike the many, he lost nothing in beauty of life by the genesis and exercise of power.
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