230 Intuitive Thinking as a Spiritual Path
action that springs from our intuitions has moral value in
the true sense. And what we have in the way of moral in-
stincts through inheritance of social instincts becomes
something ethical through our taking it up into our intui-
tions. All the moral activity of humanity arises from indi-
vidual ethical intuitions and their acceptance in human
communities. We could also say that the ethical life of hu-
manity is the sum total of what free human individuals
have produced through their moral imagination. This is
the conclusion reached by monism.