Ultimately our moral sense or conscience becomes a highly complex sentiment – originating in the social instincts, largely guided by the approbation of our fellow-men, ruled by reason, self-interest, and in later times by deep religious feelings, and confirmed by instruction and habit.
Source:(D. Appleton & Company, ed. 1878), Part I. On the Descent of Man, Chapter V. On the Development of the Intellectual and Moral Faculties during Primeval and Civilised Times, Page 132
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