Since McMaster has sought his advice, Miller makes some suggestions. So long as present conditions persist the national and state governments will remain in a revolutionary state. On the other hand, if a union of mind in a recognized code of ethical principles could be once obtained appropriate political relationships would necessarily result. If they disregard or ignore this essential preliminary procedure it is to attempt at construction without a plan or to build upon quicksand. It is useless to make political documents in such a way as to make it impossible to change them, for political ideas change with the year. The British government owes its permanency to the wise and prudent exercise of the power of adaptation. In this country, south of a certain degree of latitude, slavery is a moral and religious institution; north of that degree it is a covenant with hell. Miller wonders if the moral and religious harmonizes perfectly with the supposed useful standard of ethics. England, however, established African slavery in their American colonies upon the score of utility. Supposing slavery no longer useful to them they abolished it but upon further observation and experiment they found slave labor to be the basis of their wealth. Now they stand ready to sanction its continuance as a useful and necessary institution, without bothering about theology, metaphysics, or consistency. The adoption of utility as the criterion of right and wrong, is due to common honesty that they use as a practical rule of conduct. Miller wishes to regulate and establish a uniform rule of naturalization, of bankruptcies, and to fix the unit of money and the standards of weights and measures. He makes a final plea for an ethical hierarchy in the absence of an ecclesiastical hierarchy. :: I-1-m A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.