. Christian ethics : or, The true moral manhood and life of duty : a text-book for schools and colleges. in order to bring him into connection with the rest ofthe universe. He is a creature of manifold wants, which take shape in thefeelings, placed in a universe of good, endowed with an intel-ligence to perceive and appreciate that good, and with a willto choose and lay hold of it and direct his powers in view ofit, so as to satisfy arid enlarge his being. He is a being of varied and ceaseless activities, capable ofsetting before himself, as objects for his achievement, endswhich would embrace
. Christian ethics : or, The true moral manhood and life of duty : a text-book for schools and colleges. in order to bring him into connection with the rest ofthe universe. He is a creature of manifold wants, which take shape in thefeelings, placed in a universe of good, endowed with an intel-ligence to perceive and appreciate that good, and with a willto choose and lay hold of it and direct his powers in view ofit, so as to satisfy arid enlarge his being. He is a being of varied and ceaseless activities, capable ofsetting before himself, as objects for his achievement, endswhich would embrace, in their ever-widening sweep, the uni-verse of good in happiness, perfection, and righteousness. He is a rational being, conscious that he must work out amoral mission and an immortal destiny under God the moralgovernor, and acknowledging conscience, or the moral fac-ulty, to be his supreme guide in the fulfilment of his great task. A careful investigation of conscience, or the moral natureof man, must therefore be the first step toward the construc-tion of a philosophy of the life of human CHAPTER VIEW OF THE MORAL AGENT. IT has been shown that the sense of duty, or conscience, orthe moral nature, fits man for a life of duty, and claims tobe the authoritative guide of his conduct in the fulfilment ofhis duty. It is evident, therefore, that it is necessary, in orderto understand man as a moral agent, to investigate the ele-ments of his conscience, or moral nature. The Moral Nature, called Conscience.— Ethical writers have used con-science in various senses. By mankind generally, however, it is clearlyused as synonymous with mans entire moral nature, or all those en-dowments and arrangements of his soul by which he is capable of dis-tinguishing between right and wrong, and of conforming his conduct tothe law of duty. Any different use of the word must necessarily tendto confusion. Conscience, moral faculty, and moral nature will thereforebe used interchange
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