2/4 These are Laws proper, or Obligatory Morality. The second are supported by Rewards; constituting Optional Morality, Merit, Virtue, or Nobleness. The Ethical End, or Morality, _as it has been_, is founded partly in Utility, and partly in Sentiment. The Ethical End is limited, according to the view taken of Moral Government, or Authority:--Distinction between Security and Improvement. Morality, in its essential parts, is 'Eternal and Immutable;' in other parts, it varies with custom. |