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The easiest way in which to give a cue to the various stand- 

 points from all sides, would be perhaps to mention some of 

 the phrases used by the scholars in order to express the atti- 

 tudes they assume concerning the ethical ideal. We have 

 for example : * ' the attainment of a certain type of personal- 

 ity or bent of will," from James Seth; — "The greatest 

 attainable well-being of mankind," from '*The Principles of 

 Morals," by Fowler and Wilson; — ** conscious life in the 

 full development of all its normal possibilities," from Borden 

 P. Bowne; — *' the preservation and perfection of human 

 life," from Frank Thilly; — *« The complete satisfaction of 

 the ideal self," from George Trumbull Ladd; — '*an equi- 

 librium of conduct under the conditions of action," from 

 S.Alexander; — ** The realized will, the developed or satis- 

 fied self," from John Dewey; — ** the peace of conscience 

 secured by devoting one's self to the welfare of mankind," 

 from Georg von Gizycki; — ** The identity of perfection 

 and of happiness," from Paul Janet; — «' la vie k la fois la 

 plus intense et la plus variee dans ses formes," from 

 M. Guyau; — **the health of society," from Sir Leslie 

 Stephen; — <* the one subjective last end of all the human 

 acts of a given individual, * * * that it may be well 

 with him and his," from Joseph Eickaby, S. J. ; — *' the 

 perfecting of man or the realization of the powers of the 

 human soul," from Thomas Hill Green; — " the full exercise 

 of the man's faculties in accordance with his proper individ- 

 uality," from Charles F. D'Arcy; — ** a desirable state of 

 feeling called by whatever name — gratification, enjoyment, 

 happiness," from Herbert Spencer; — *' universal happiness 

 from the desirable consciousness or feeling for the innumer- 

 able multitude of living beings present and to come, " from 

 Henry Sidgwick ; — * ' Bef riedigung der Bediirf nisse der 

 menschlichen Natur nach ihrem ganzen Umfange," i. e., 

 '« allgemeine Wohlfahrt," — from Hoffding; — *' self-reali- 

 zation, the objective consciousness of an attained end, which 

 is accompanied by, but is not the same as, the feeling of 

 pleasure," from W. R. Sorley; — *'ein Sichbestimmen des 

 Einzelnen nach der Idee der Gattung," from Strauss, the 



