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means his own convenience for the purposes of the present book. I think it would be better to consider the welfare of all sentient beings, not only as directly affected by the particular act but also as affected by that act as tending toward or against the prevalence of a salutory rule. It seem to me that duty of every writer to do what in him lies to cause the cessation of the present extremely inconvenient double uses and I believe that the only way of bringing that about is to call attention to the ethics of terminology and show that the above rules are the only one's which will be unanimously acceptable. Now, the term conscience is the same term as the conscientia moralis of the scholastics and they attached a definite idea to it, namely it is the whote acts of pronouncing a moral judgement, springing from a moral habit, whether inborn or developed. I have a moral judgement if anothers act be condemned by such a judgement apart alike from my