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experience of facts, however universal, can give rise to 

 that particular characteristic of intuitions and a priori 

 ideas, which compels us to deny the possibility that in 

 any other world, however otherwise different, our ex- 

 perience (as to space relations) could be otherwise." 



" 2. That the case of moral intuitions is very much 

 stronger." 



" 3. That if Mr. Spencer's theory accounts for anything, 

 it accounts not for the deepening of a sense of utility and 

 inutility into right and wrong, but for the drying up of the 

 sense of utility and inutility into mere inherent tenden- 

 cies, which would exercise over us not more authority but 

 less, than a rational sense of utilitarian issues." 



" 4. That Mr. Spencer's theory could not account for the 

 intuitional sacredness now attached to individual moral 

 rules and principles, without accounting a fortiori for the 

 general claim of the greatest happiness principle over us 

 as the final moral intuition which is conspicuously con- 

 trary to the fact, as not even the utilitarians themselves 

 plead any instinctive or intuitive sanction for their great 

 principle." 



" 5. That there is no trace of positive evidence of any 

 single instance of the transformation of a utilitarian rule 

 of right into an intuition, since we find no utilitarian 

 principle of the most ancient times which is now an 

 accepted moral intuition, nor any moral intuition, how- 

 ever sacred, which has not been promulgated thousands 

 of years ago, and which has not constantly had to stop 

 the tide of utilitarian objections to its authority and this 

 age after age, in our own day quite as much as in days 



gone by Surely, if anything is remarkable in the 



history of morality, it is the anticipatory character, if I 



