189

14

deny that some actions are conscientious and others not.
Whether any action is so or not is the agent's personal concern.
But there is another question, - the question of the science of morals.
What are the ideals of conduct most fitting ot man and on what principles are they to be allowed to be so?That has been a deep study from the dawn of history; there is no more encouraging chapter of history than that we recounts the gradual improvement of the science of ethics while the fully satisfactory solution of the problem is still hidden from us.

Such, then, being the facts, what do these people mean who say that it is unthinkable that a man should have any other motive than his own pleasure in the act?
Is a determination of the soul formed long before the act is performed.
The man was not then the same man as he that afterwards acts,