[9] G. K. Chesterton: _Napoleon of Notting Hill_, p. 291. The whole
book is a brilliant satire, intended to show that all of the heroic
sentiments and virtues depend on war and local pride.
[10] Nietsche: _Op. cit._, pp. 59, 163, 176, 223, 235, 237, 122.
[11] Chesterton: _Heretics_, and _Orthodoxy_.
[12] Plato: _Protagoras_, p. 322 (marginal pagination), and _passim_;
translated by Jowett.
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CHAPTER II
[1] Locke: _The Conduct of the Understanding_, Bohn's Library Edition,
Vol. I, p. 72; also, _passim_.
[2] Locke: _Op. cit._, p. 56.
[3] Descartes: _Discourse on Method_, translated by Veitch, pp. 13-14.
Also, _passim_.
[4] Spinoza: _The Improvement of the Understanding_, translated by
Elwes, Vol. II, p. 4.
[5] _Cf._ Plato's _Republic_, Books V-VII, _passim_.
[6] For further discussion of the meaning of duty, _cf._ Kant's
_Critical Examination of the Practical Reason_, Book I, Chapter III,
translated in Abbott's _Kant's Theory of Ethics_, p. 164; Bradley's
_Ethical Studies_, Essays II and V; and Sidgwick's _Methods of Ethics_,
Book I, Chapter III.
[7] Chesterton: _Napoleon of Notting Hill_, p. 162.
[8] G. E. Moore: _Principia Ethica_, Chapter III, Sect. 58-63.
[9] Locke: _Op. cit._, p. 29.
[10] There is an excellent account of the questions that lie on the
border between ethics and jurisprudence in S. E. Mezes's _Ethics,
Descriptive and Explanatory_, Chapter XIII.
[11] Kant: _Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals_,
translated in Abbott's _Kant's Theory of Ethics_, p. 47.
[12] H. G. Lord: _The Abuse of Abstraction in Ethics_, in _Essays
Philosophical and Psychological in Honor of William James_, pp. 376-377.
[13] John Davidson: _A Rosary_, pp. 77, 82.
[14] Maurice Maeterlinck: _The Measure of the Hours_, translated by A.
T. de Mattos, p. 151. The essay in this volume, entitled "Our Anxious
Morality," charges rationalism with destroying the romantic and
mystical element in life.
CHAPTER III
[1] A good discussion of the several virtues will be found in Paulsen:
_Op. cit._, Book III.
[2] W. H. S. Jones: _Greek Morality_, p. 50.
[3] Jeremy Taylor: _Rules and Exercises of Holy Living_, edited by Ezra
Abbot, p. 73.
[4] Jones: _Op. cit._, p. 124.
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[5] Count Baldesar Castiglione: _The Book of the Courtier_, translated
by Opdycke, p. 250.
[6] _Cf._ Hobbes: _Leviathan_, Chapters XIII, XIV, XV. In Hobbes's
account, morality is reduced wholly to the prudential economy.
[7] H. G. Wells: First and Last Things, p. 82.
[8] Castiglione: _Op. cit._, p. 257.
[9] Burke: _Op. cit._, p. 8.
[10] Epictetus: _Discourses_, Book III, Chapter XXII, translated by
Long, Vol. II, pp. 82, 83.
[11] Taylor: _Op. cit._, p. 7.
[12] Epictetus: _Op. cit._, Book II, Chapter XXI, translated by Long,
Vol. I, p. 229.
[13] _Cf._ Hegel: _Philosophy of Right_, Third Part, Third Section,
translated by S. W. Dyde; and _Philosophy of History_, Introduction,
translated by J. Sibree.
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