A Treatise on the Moral Ideals (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from A Treatise on the Moral Ideals

IN the Author's Introduction to the Exploratio Phi losozohz'ca, the present treatise is alluded to in words to which I have already called attention in my Pre face to his Examination of the U tilitarian Philosozohy. After mentioning that he had contemplated publish ing an answer to Mr J S. Mill's U tilitaricmism in the year 1868, he continues, I altered my mind as to this, and determined rather to put together in an uncontroversial form What seemed to me the truth, in-opposition to what I thought error. This, if it please God, is in the way of being accomplished, sub ject to all the delays which interest in other employ ments, uncertain health, and some not, I think, uncalled for scrupulousness and anxiety as to what one w'rites on a subject so important, may throw in the way of it.' The Exploratio itself was published in 1865, andthe chapters were apparently written.

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