Excerpt from Institutional Ethics
In this work, the terms "justice" and "grace" (charity) have been used for two reasons: first, to distinguish the process of evolution in man from evolution in the other orders of creation; second, because of the historical significance of these terms.
The process of development of man in institutional life is similar rather than identical with the processes of development in inorganic nature, in plant-life and in the lower forms of animal life. There is an external similarity in these processes that often leads to their identification. The inherent activity of the inorganic world often displays itself as a "superabundance of energy." In the plant-world there is a degree of individuality shown in the fact of the preservation of the species; but apparently, there is a reckless expenditure of the life of the individual plant. In the animal-world, the animals below man have sufficient selfactivity and persistence to retain their space relations, and to form in consciousness a world conditioned upon feeling and sense-perception, without the higher form of reflection and reason; there is also in the animal-world a sacrifice of the individual animal, but a preservation of the species.
This process of the sacrifice of the life of one for the good of others becomes in man a conscious process of self-making. And only as there is a voluntariness in the act that indicates a free self-determining personality are the terms just and charitable applied to acts.
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