LECTURE XI. 



THE MORAL INSTINCTS — OBLIGATION. 



Law of Being defined. — Relatione/ Men and animals to this law. — 

 Co'nditions under which Obligation arises. — Man's Freedom. — Self- 

 denial. — Effects of Ignorance. — Relation of Obligation to the ytidg- 

 ment. — Double action of Obligation. — Doing right because it ts 

 Right. — Obligation to do justly. — Four Manifestations of Obliga- 

 tion. — Its action compared with the Instincts. — Its relation to Pro- 

 gress, — Moral Conflicts. — Choice. — Free Personality. — Accountabil- 

 ity. — Remorse. — Man compared with an atti?nal. — Moral powers 

 always found in him. — The perfection and sphere of the Animal. — 

 The sphere of Man's Action. 



We have traced the instinctive principles, in man's 

 animal nature, to find their method of action, and 

 the means by which they are controlled. We have 

 found these principles in him, capable of terrific 

 power, and fitted by this power for efficient service, 

 if they can be rightly directed. To find a control- 

 ling power for them, we are compelled to pass be- 

 yond the animal instincts themselves, to a higher 

 nature. As the agency to enable man himself to 

 guide and limit the action of his animal instincts, 

 he needs a Comprehending power., to show him the 

 relation of all his acts to results, and the relation 

 of all subordinate results, to his highest good. He 

 v\.^Qdi'=>\.\v^ power of Choice, — when different ends are 

 comprehended, — in addition to that executive vo- 



