Morphology is the study of our virtues, but also a description of these
virtues in action and the knowledge of their effects. I intend that this
book should continue immediately where the 'Physiology' leaves off, so
that a familiarity with the fundamental virtue of fear and unfear is
taken for granted. Also the double-edged effectiveness of every virtue
is anticipated, and the fourfold root or substructure of our emotional
human being as horror and terror, shame and guilt is taken as read in
that book. I do not intend to preach, neither to the converted nor to
the unconverted, but simply to observe the shape of things to come,
pleasant or unpleasant, interesting or boring, with an eye only to the
changing pattern of appearances and with an ear to the spirit of
reality's sound advice.
