THE CONSCIENCE. 



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anything I said about Conscience should be construed to exclude or 

 to be inconsistent with the doctrine of the categorical imperative. I 

 always think there is something misleading about the dual quality 

 of God and ourselves. 



With, regard to the personification of Conscience, I should, 

 perhaps, accept the correction that I did not perhaps mean to say 

 that all the passages in St. Paul were properly described as personi- 

 fication. I meant rather what I call the use of Conscience in the 

 absolute sense. The word is found only in St. Paul. The only 

 other thing I would wish to say is with regard to the passage at the 

 bottom of page 142 and the top of page 143. I do not venture here 

 to express a view one way or the other upon the difficult problem 

 about the Fall, I am not stating my own opinion, but simply 

 describing or giving the contents of the passage by Jerome, whom I 

 was quoting. 



Thanking you once more for your kindness in listening to the 

 paper and your criticisms of it. 



The Meeting adjourned at 6.20 p.m. 



Written Communication. 

 Rev. John Tuckwell, M.E.A.S., wrote : — 



The Institute is greatly indebted to Mr. Webb for his learned 

 and thoughtful paper. It is necessary to emphasize, as he has done, 

 the fact that the conscience is as much a faculty for " perceiving 

 moral values " as the eye is for perceiving colours. It is not the 

 mere expression of "the average opinion of society." There is 

 what may be called an average conscience, but there is also a 

 superior conscience, and all great struggles for reform are struggles 

 between the two. There was a time when the average conscience 

 cried out against the Supreme Conscience " Crucify Him ! Crucify 

 Him ! " 



The average Judaic conscience scattered the Apostles from Jeru- 

 salem. The average pagan conscience flung the Christians to the 

 lions. The average Romish conscience tortured " heretics " with 

 thumbscrew, rack and fire ; and in each case this went on until the 

 superior conscience won in the struggle. 



Mr. Webb is mistaken in his exposition of Passive Resistance. 



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