Located between Cautiousness and Firmness. This faculty produces a feeling of _duty_, a desire of _justice_, and a love of _truth_; it is the organ that leads men to do as they would be done unto, and is the most elevated principle of human action: the faculty does not determine what is just or unjust, but causes a desire to do whatever the reflective faculties determine to be right and becoming. It is a portion of the organization that cannot be too much cultivated, as it is of the highest importance in guiding and directing, regulating and controlling the actions of the other faculties: it leads to a conviction of individual error, and the truth when asserted by others: it influences the whole being to exercise prudence, temperance and fortitude, in opposition to the baser desires of the propensities; it tends to overcome the energy of passion, to regulate and direct the affections, to root out prejudice, and give the sense of moral rectitude, that supports an honest man under distress and affliction: when the sentiment is not well developed, the ideas of right and wrong are weak, and injustice if in accordance with interest or inclination easily committed; and when the lower propensities are active, an individual with this organ small, will call that _justice_, which a person differently organized would at once condemn; these are they of whom the apostles spoke, "Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving, there is nothing pure:" but even their mind and _conscience_ is defiled: remorse and repentance spring from this faculty: it should however be exerted _before_, not _after_ an action--neither should it descend into immoderate personal chastisement; for no punishment of the body can wash out sin from the soul; the sentiment will never be abused if it be directed to preserve the "conscience, void of offence." 31. FIRMNESS.