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by the rudders of pleasure and pain " was imper- 

 fectly moral, because he did not act TOV KO\OV EI/EKO, 

 it is also true that he in whose life the hope of 

 heaven and the fear of hell are the dominant prin- 

 ciples falls equally short of the Christian ideal. 



We cannot now follow Professor Green into his 

 comparison of the Greek virtues of courage and 

 temperance with the Christian fortitude and self- 

 denial. The superiority of the Christian type is of 

 course everywhere admitted, but it is difficult to 

 feel that the contrast, especially between the crax- 

 po(Tvvr] of the Greek meaning, as it did, little more 

 than moderation in eating, drinking, and the sexual 

 passion and the soberness, temperance, and chas- 

 tity of Christian ethics is fully recognized, when it 

 can be said that "the sexual temperance which 

 they" (the philosophers) "demanded, they de- 

 manded on the true ground, but not in full enough 

 measure " (p. 289) ; nor can we accept without a 

 good deal of interpretation the statement that 

 " there is no true foundation for the strictest sexual 

 morality other than the social duty which they 

 asserted." It was not the fact of social equality 

 which St. Paul appealed to against the prevailing 

 vice of the ancient world. It was the dignity of 

 the nature which had been taken into God, and the 

 indwelling in the regenerate man of the Personal 

 Spirit of God. 



The failure to appreciate what is distinctive in 



