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We find the world also corresponding to the emo- 

 tional nature, giving objects of beauty, grandeur, 

 and sublimity. We find it as completely fitted to 

 the whole intellectual nature of man as it is to his 

 physical nature. 



But it is not enough for man that he is able to 

 provide for himself food and raiment and shelter, or 

 that he can revel in the enjoyment of intellectual 

 and emotional exercises ; for above all these he has 

 a moral nature. He has a sense of right and wrong, 

 and the conscious power of choosing one course of 

 action in preference to another for himself. He 

 says of the acts of his neighbor that they are right 

 or wrong, that he is a good or a bad man. He has 

 also feelings of merit or demerit in reference to his 

 o\vn character, thoughts, and actions. 



We are linked to our fellow-men by ties of in- 

 terest or affection, and we have a social nature ; but 

 it is in the moral nature that we find the only real 

 distinction in kind between man and the lower 

 animals. His intellect, emotions, and social nature 

 are simply conditional for this higher moral nature ; 

 and they in turn are so modified by it that the 

 social nature at least is what it is, because man is 

 a moral being. 



Let us turn now to this higher nature. And as 

 its central power and guide, so far as man can be 

 a guide to himself, we recognize conscience, the 

 arbiter of right and wrong. We leave to the moral- 

 ist the analysis and mutual relations of this and 

 other moral and intellectual powers, and deal with 



