3. The Two Sources of the Christian View 200-205 1. Primarily, the Sacred Scriptures 201-204 2. Secondarily, the Christian Moral Consciousness 204-205 4. Particular Features of the Christian View 205-216 1. Known Duties Made More Distinct and Definite 205-206 2. Human Relations Better Disclosed 206-208 3. Moral Obligations Disclosed as Duties to God 208-210 4. Guilt of Offending against Moral Law 210-213 5. The Universalism of the Moral Law 213-215 6. Fulfilment Requires Regeneration 215-216 CHAPTER XII. THE ETHICAL TASK UNDER CHRISTIANITY. 1. Helped by the Completion of the Ethical View 219-220 2. Quickened by Assurance of Success 220-222 3. The Religious Interest Brought to Reinforce the Moral 222-224 4. The Enlightening and Enforcing Power of the Holy Spirit 224-225 5. Through Spiritual Regeneration 225-227 THEORETICAL ETHICS. CHAPTER I. DEFINITION AND DIVISIONS. ==Ethics Defined.== =1.= Ethics is the science of rectitude and duty. It treats of the right and its obligations. Its subject is morality. Its sphere is the sphere of virtuous conduct. It covers a double range of inquiry, as the subject-matter lies within or without the human constitution. On the one side it investigates and sets forth the facts and laws of man's moral constitution; on the other, the nature and grounds of the distinction of right and wrong. In the light of the whole investigation into these fundamental verities, it determines the principles and rules of duty in the various relations of life. It thus discovers and elucidates the underlying pre-suppositions and principles upon which the phenomena of moral discernment and obligation rest, and on which man rises into the possibility and reality of character, as his supreme distinction among the orders of existence on earth. The inquiry throughout is conducted according to the scientific method of careful observation and analysis of the unquestionable facts concerned, and an orderly presentation of their necessary logical implications and conclusions. Hence the product of the investigation, as the systematized view of the facts, with their underlying principles, may justly be called, as it usually is called, moral science.