ix.] MR. BUCKLE'S FALLACIES. 153 



emotion is to lay down a proposition, why not include 

 both under one name ? Mr. Buckle is misled by the 

 fact that, in all our mental operations, feeling and 

 thinking are closely united. Our wishes colour our 

 judgments. We are all led, in many cases, to believe 

 that to be true which we wish to be true. Thus emo- 

 tional states give rise to intellectual states. On the 

 other hand, Mr. Bain has shown that belief, when 

 active, always leads to volition ; 1 and as volition is 

 the final stage of emotion, we perceive that intel- 

 lectual states likewise occasion emotional states. But 

 this intimate connection of the two should not lead 

 us to confound the one with the other ; and we fall 

 into a grave error whenever we do so. Once more 

 we repeat, it is the province of emotion to feel, of the 

 intellect to think and form propositions. Scientifically 

 speaking, therefore, all truths are intellectual ; and 

 there can be no such thing as a " moral truth." 



But there is another sense in which the expression 

 " moral truths " may be taken. It may mean " truths 

 relative to morality." Mr. Buckle generally uses it in 

 this sense, but he so often confounds " moral truths " 

 with "moral feelings," that the foregoing remarks 

 were rendered necessary to a right understanding of 

 his argument. 



1 Bain, The Emotions and the Will, pp. 568598. 



