The whole issue here raised : whether the conscious agent determines 
of himself. (The denial of which makes the conscious agent to 
be only passive.) 
All the facts affirm the reality of the internal self-decision : and that 
this self -decision is not from internal necessity (which would involve 
a contradiction). 
Contingency , as involved in conscious agency, an axiom of social life. 
The conscious agent, praised or blamed, in fact, so far as he is a 
determiner of action. (§ 20-26). 
V. Not, however, for determining simply, or any how ; but in reference to 
right. The “ accountability ” is for the determination (which ought 
to be Right). 
The inner character of an act, as right or good : in relation to the 
agent. 
The conscious agent comprises a duality. (The Thinker and the 
Thought distinguished.) 
The Thinker stands in relation to the phenomenal : but also to the 
“ true-always .” 
This latter relation touches the beginning of “good,” per se. 
In reference to “ the good,” the sameness of conscious agency is 
a fact. 
The conscious agent is not the measure of the absolute ; nor yet of the 
phenomenal : though he is in relation with both ; the former being 
prior to an external law. (§ 27-32). 
VI. Extension of the analysis. — Responsibility, in the social system. 
Various hinds of responsibility distinguished. (Examples.) 
Distinction of the purely Moral responsibility. 
Mutual relations of responsible agents. 
The adjustment of relations , often inscrutable , between man and man. 
Yet man exists in, and for society. 
External and internal government — how related. 
The best government, ideally. 
The best de facto , not the same everywhere. (§ 33-40). 
VII. How some difficulties are met, in the pre-Christian philosophies ; 
by merging the right in the useful. 
How met in modern civilization, and law ; 
by imperfect approximations to a moral ideal ; (chiefly by utilization 
of the Religious convictions). 
The fact recognized, that Religion is more than mere policy. 
Whatever more it be, is contributed by the Individual. 
The meaning of saying that a “ State has a conscience .” 
The meaning of Hobbesism : and that it involves a contradiction. 
Erastian modification of Hobbesism equally a contradiction. 
(§ 41-46 
