I certainly look at the modern guys and think they are a different species to when we played. They are fitter and their conditioning is extraordinary.
There is no morality by instinct. There is no social salvation in the end without taking thought; without mastery of logic and application of logic to human experience.
My definition of an educated man is the fellow who knows the right thing to do at the time it has to be done. You can be sincere and still be stupid.