This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1862 Excerpt: ...the least with each individual, and simply restrains the wrongful interference of one man with another. All external governments are no doubt inherently imperfect, (except that of the Divine Being, ) when thus considered as restraints on Individual Will and Power, in the manifestation of which Moral Agency consists. ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1862 Excerpt: ...the least with each individual, and simply restrains the wrongful interference of one man with another. All external governments are no doubt inherently imperfect, (except that of the Divine Being, ) when thus considered as restraints on Individual Will and Power, in the manifestation of which Moral Agency consists. How deep a Moral confusion, then, must enter into the speculation of theorists who transfer the great Moral work of human life, formally, from the Individual to the Government! And this is what these "New Nationalists" would do.. Let it not be hastily imagined that any doubt is here to be thrown on men's real Eesponsibility 0f man.s Po. to the State; or to any Community in ba-uw which their sphere of moral agency lies. Wtatfeiaw. But the ideas must be distinguished. Our Eesponsibility as men is prior to our Eesponsibility as citizens; and it is founded in our very constitution. Man is not only capable of originating action, but he is so constituted as to know that he ought to originate it, in accordance with some anterior and unchangeable principles of truth and righteousness. But his Eesponsibility as a citizen is at present regulated by evermutable law. It is a distinction of all Law, that it carries consequences to the law-breaker; and that is what distin T- T 1 T- guishes Moral what may be termed " Political Eespon-.Responsibility, sibility." But there is this further distinction of Moral law, --that our inward Consciousness more or less accompanies the principle, and its results. We have a knowledge, in the case of other laws, that they are vindicated by such and such sanctions, and will be attended by certain consequences; but in the case of Moral laws, we have a further conviction that thus it ought to be. A ma...
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