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positive school themselves 77
As we can learn explicitly from George Eliot 78
In _Daniel Deronda_ 78
That the fundamental moral question is, '_In what way shall the
individual make life pleasant?_' 79
And the right way, for the positivists, as for the Christians, is
an inward way 80
The moral end is a certain inward state of the heart, and the
positivists say it is a sufficient attraction in itself, without
any aid from religion 81
And they support this view by numerous examples 82
But all such examples are useless 83
Because though we may get rid of religion in its pure form 83
There is much that we have not got rid of, embodied still in the
moral end 84
To test the intrinsic value of the end, we must sublimate this
religion out of it 86
For this purpose we will consider, first, the three general
characteristics of the moral end, viz. 88
Its inwardness 88
Its importance 89
And its absolute character 91
Now all these three characteristics can be explained by religion 93
And cannot be explained without it 96
The positive moral end must therefore be completely divested of
them 100
The next question is, will it be equally attractive then? 100
CHAPTER V.
LOVE AS A TEST OF GOODNESS.
The positivists represent love as a thing whose value is
self-dependent 101
And which gives to life a positive and incalculable worth 103
But this is supposed to be true of one form of love only 104
And the very opposite is supposed to hold good of all other forms 105
The right form depends on the conformity of each of the lovers
to a certain inward standard
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