Judgments, moral, universal, 29;
conflict of, 47;
agreement, 48-51;
primary, 62-67;
secondary, 51, 128;
not infallible, 52.
Kant, Critique of Pure Reason, 81;
phenomenalism, 121-122;
on the ground of right, 167;
"categorical imperative," 212-213.
Knowledge, relation of, to moral judgments, 51-52, 59-62, 67-68,
92-93, 95-96, 102-105, 172-175, 205-209.
Lecky, quoted, 157 (note).
Literature, its testimony to the moral sense, 33.
Mansel, Dean, 121.
Marcus Aurelius, 148.
Martineau, James, 88, 174, 223-224.
Merit and demerit, import of, 68-70;
measure of, 71.
Metaphysics of ethics, 21, 119-195.
Mill, James, 154.
Mill, J. Stuart, 82, 121-122, 154.
Mohammedanism, 32.
Monism, material, 133-137, 155.
Moral agency, 100-118, 172, 182.
Moral distinctions, fact of, 28-36;
faculty of, 37-85;
objectively real, 125-126;
not made by mental organization, 127;
intuitions, 63;
immutable and eternal, 127-128.
Moral emotions, 44-47.
Moral Law, perceived obligation, 64-66;
theistic, 79-80, 87-88, 135;
only for free agents, 136;
grandeur of, 129-130;
universal, 213-215.
Morality, relation of Christianity to, 197-198.
Moral motives, 73, 75-76.
Moral qualities, predicable of personal beings, 182;
external acts, 183-187;
feelings, desires, etc., 187-189;
hereditary propensities, 189;
intellectual activities, 191;
intentions, 190;
will, 193-195.
Necessitarianism, 112-115.
Necessity, in the action of conscience, 78;
in intellect and sensibility, 174-175.
Nemesis, in history, 31.
Newman, Francis, 80.
Nirvana, 142, 222.
Obligation, perceived, 64;
felt, 64-65;
belongs to moral agent, 65;
central in conscience, 65;
implies objective moral law, 125-137.
Old Testament ethics, 202-203.
Paley, William, 153.
Pascal, 47.
Peculiarity of the moral perceptions, 40.
Persistence of the moral sense, 48, 64.
Phenicia, 43.
Phenomenalism, 81, 121-125.
Philosophical part of ethics, 21.
Plato, 18, 33, 144, 148, 152.
Plausibility of utilitarianism, 161-165.
Positive Philosophy, 82.
Principles, higher and lower, Dr. Martineau's rules, 174-175.
Presuppositions to responsibility, 102-103, 105-108, 172.
Psychology, relation to ethics, 23;
in study of conscience, 59;
shows the place of conscience, 59-62.
Quatrefages, 32.
Regeneration, to realize the ethical life, 215-217, 225-226.
Relativity of knowledge, 81, 120-125.
Religion, witness to the ethical distinctions, 31-33;
becomes moral obligation, 169-170, 222-223.
Right, rated in value, 160.
Robinson Crusoe, 170.
Roman teaching, 148.
Rome, 43.
Seneca, 33, 148.
Sensibility, the, as related to the conscience, 72-76;
to moral agency, 115.
Shaftesbury, 154.
Shintoism, 32.
Skepticism, intellectual, 123.
Smith, Adam, 151.
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