Thus, without allowing that conscientious persecutors of Christians act rightly, he is not afraid, in the application of his principle, to say that they would act still more wrongly if through not listening to their conscience, they spared their victims.

But this means only that by following conscience we avoid sinning; for virtue in the full sense, it is necessary that the conscience should have judged rightly.

By what standard, however, this is to be ascertained, he nowhere clearly says.

_Contemptus Dei_, given by him as the real and only thing that constitutes an action bad, is merely another subjective description.
ST.

BERNARD of Clairvaux (1091-1153), the strenuous opponent of Abaelard, and the great upholder of mysticism against rationalism in the early scholastic period when the two were not yet reconciled, gave utterance, in the course of his mystical effusions, to some special views of love and disinterestedness.
There are two degrees of Christian virtue, Humility and Charity or Love.