Austin, in his Lectures on "The Province of Jurisprudence determined,"

has discussed the leading questions of Ethics
Austin, in his Lectures on "The Province of Jurisprudence determined,"
has discussed the leading questions of Ethics. We give an abstract of
the Ethical part.

The cultural factor is one which must be made more omnipresent

than it is now before we shall be able to awake the latent
talent of the masses of people
The cultural factor is one which must be made more omnipresent
than it is now before we shall be able to awake the latent
talent of the masses of people. There are certain sections of
all nations, and more especially of such nations as the United
States, where the population is widely scattered over vast
areas of farming regions in which the opportunities for
education and stimulative enterprises and institutions are
lacking or meager. The same is true of very large sections of
the populations of the cities. In both cases large
neighborhoods exist in which the lives of the people move in a
humdrum rut, never disturbed by matters which arouse the
creative element in human nature. Especially is this important
in the early years of life where the outlook for the whole
future of the individual is so strongly stamped. To come into
contact with no stimulus and arousing agent in the home, or the
neighborhood in the earliest years is to become settled into a
life-long habit of inert dullness.