Aesthetics and morals are tributaries of judgment and evaluation, diametrically opposed although never separate or free from the influence of each other. Morality is traceable to the pragmatic concern for the fitness of the tribe and hence entails a prejudice in favour of the particular. The aesthetic is universal and aimed at truth but lacking any commensurately pure object must draw on the contents of the moral. Their mutual contamination is integral to both. Nonetheless the aesthetisation of the oral seems to produce happier results than the moralsation of the aesthetic.