. Christian ethics : or, The true moral manhood and life of duty : a text-book for schools and colleges. wisdom; this isthe very intention of our being. In working out this end of his being,the powers for moral action claim a first and controlling place. The life task, which the moral agent is appointed to accom- |plish, may be summed up as a life-long obedience to theentire law of his being as prescribed by his Moral Governor. I 130 THEOEETICAL ETHICS. This moral task is summarily comprehended in the innermoral law, investigated in a preceding Division. This innerlaw as a whole expresses mans
. Christian ethics : or, The true moral manhood and life of duty : a text-book for schools and colleges. wisdom; this isthe very intention of our being. In working out this end of his being,the powers for moral action claim a first and controlling place. The life task, which the moral agent is appointed to accom- |plish, may be summed up as a life-long obedience to theentire law of his being as prescribed by his Moral Governor. I 130 THEOEETICAL ETHICS. This moral task is summarily comprehended in the innermoral law, investigated in a preceding Division. This innerlaw as a whole expresses mans moral mission; and in itsseparate intuitive moral principles furnishes the rules whichthe agent needs for his guidance in the life of virtue. Topic Second. The Complete Moral Manhood. — The working out of the complete life of duty is impossible exceptby the complete moral man. In order to the life of duty, theagent must therefore secure the true moral manhood. The requisites to the complete moral manhood are treatedin the following Chapters^ — to which this Topic affords theproper transition. i. CHAPTER II. THE NATURAL REQUISITES FOR THE LIFEOF DUTY. Statement and Subdivision. THE natural requisites for the mission of duty indicated bythe supreme rule are the elements of the complete moralmanhood. These are: an intelligence broad enough to under-stand the moral task; a conscience sufficiently cultivated todirect and impel toward the accomplishment of that task;and a will disposed to execute that task under the directionof intelligence and conscience. These requisites, treated in relation to the moral task,furnish the subjects of the following Sections : Section 1. The Broad Intelligence and Moral Task. Section 2. The Cultivated Conscience and Moral Task. Section 3. The Free and Holy Will and Moral Task. Each of these requisites will be considered, first, with refer-ence to the separate acts of duty; and, secondly, with referenceto the complete life of duty. SECTION L The B
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