. Christian ethics : or, The true moral manhood and life of duty : a text-book for schools and colleges. ssible manhood and an unswerving life of duty ; Secondly, that the natural requisites for the accomplishmentof this task of duty have been given to every man, in intelli-gence, conscience, and free will; but that so grand a task canonly be accomplished by aid of powers disciplined to theperfect: an intellect the keenest and broadest; a consciencethe quickest, clearest, and most decisive; and a will the strong-est and holiest; Thirdly, that, by reason of the wreck of mans moralnature, the mo
. Christian ethics : or, The true moral manhood and life of duty : a text-book for schools and colleges. ssible manhood and an unswerving life of duty ; Secondly, that the natural requisites for the accomplishmentof this task of duty have been given to every man, in intelli-gence, conscience, and free will; but that so grand a task canonly be accomplished by aid of powers disciplined to theperfect: an intellect the keenest and broadest; a consciencethe quickest, clearest, and most decisive; and a will the strong-est and holiest; Thirdly, that, by reason of the wreck of mans moralnature, the moral manhood is lost and the mission has becomeimpossible; but that Christianity offers a moral reconstructionwhich fully meets the demands of the case, and opens to man-kind the way back from moral death and shame to the noblestmoral achievements and the truest moral glory. The Philosophy of the Life of Duty therefore reaches itscompletion only in Christianity, — the true Moral Systemculminating in the true Religious System, and founding onthis the strongest claim to the title of Christian Part II. PRACTICAL and Division. Practical Ethics is that part of Christian Ethics whichapplies the theory of duty, as determined by TheoreticalEthics, to the regulation of mans conduct in working out:the complete mission of duty in the position and relations inwhich the Moral Governor has placed him. It has already been shown that the duties which constitutemans moral task appear in germinal form in the intuitivemoral judgments, or principles, investigated in TheoreticalEthics. All duties are therefore simply unfoldings and appli-cations of the three great moral requirements: of due regardtoward self, toward mankind, and toward God. Germs of the Law.—These germs of the law, as canons of duty, havebeen variously stated. As drawn from the Scriptures, they may be statedas follows: Thou shalt love thyself as bearing the image of God. Tliou shalt love thy neighbor a
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