...sensuality, it made an idol of asceticism, which has been gradually compromised away into one of legality. It holds out the hope of heaven and the threat of hell,...each man's feelings of duty from the interests of his fellow-creatures, except so far as a self-interested inducement is offered to him for consulting them....

...Stuart Mill says in his late grand Essay upon Liberty, that " our popular religious ethics, by holding out the hope of heaven and the threat of hell, as...appointed and appropriate motives to a virtuous life, fall far below the best of the ancients, and do what they can to give to human morality lii PREFACE....

...sensuality, it made an idol of asceticism, which has been gradually compromised away into one of legality. It holds out the hope of heaven and the threat of hell,...the appointed and appropriate motives to a virtuous ur* life : in this falling far below the best of the ancients, and doing what lies in it to give to...

...Stuart Mill says in his late grand Essay upon Liberty, that "our popular religious ethics, by holding out the hope of heaven and the threat of hell, as...appointed and appropriate motives to a virtuous life, fall far below the best of the ancients, and do what they can to give to human morality lii PREFACE....

...Stuart Mill says, in his late grand Essay upon Liberty, that " our popular religious ethics, by holding out the hope of heaven and the threat of hell, as...appointed and appropriate motives to a virtuous life, fall far below the best of the ancients, and do what they can to give to human morality an essentially...

...charge which I have brought against it. «Avoid evil," rather than "do good," is its spirit. It " gives to human morality an essentially selfish character,...each man's feelings of duty from the interests of his fellow-creatures, except so far as a self-interested inducement is offered to him for consulting them."...

...Testament." But if he intends to deny that the system of morality taught by Christ and the apostles " holds out the hope of heaven and the threat of hell as appointed and appropriate motives to a virtuous life," we find him in controversy with these declarations...

...sensuality, it made an idol of asceticism, which has been gradually compromised away into one of legality. It holds out the hope of heaven and the threat of hell,...each man's feelings of duty from the interests of his fellow-creatures, except so far as a self-interested inducement is offered to him for consulting them....

...sensuality, it made an idol of asceticism, which has been gradually compromised away into one of legality. It holds out the hope of heaven and the threat of hell,...each man's feelings of duty from the interests of his fellow-creatures, except so i ! far as a self-interested inducement is offered to { him for consulting...

...which has been gradually compromised away into one of legality. It holds out the hope of heaven aud the threat of hell, as the appointed and appropriate...essentially selfish character, by disconnecting each man's feeliags of duty from the interests of his fellow-creatures, except so far as a self-interested inducement...