Absence of social blame is the usual mark of goodness for it shows that evil has been avoided. Blame is most readily averted by being so much like ev… - John Dewey

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Absence of social blame is the usual mark of goodness for it shows that evil has been avoided. Blame is most readily averted by being so much like everybody else that one passes unnoticed. Conventional morality is a drab morality, in which the only fatal thing is to be conspicuous. If there be flavor left in it, then some natural traits have somehow escaped being subdued.