Lectures And Essays On Natural Theology And Ethics
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The dictates of moral self-restraint, on the con- trary, have a ' perceived rectitude, ' or an ' essential propriety ' ; they refer to the intrinsic effects of the acts in question. Thus in the conception of duty or obligation the sense of restraint or control has a double source. The one is a certain coerciveness or compulsory quality, due to the extrinsic effects of the socio-political and the sacerdoto-religious sanctions. Tliis element is obviously, thinks Mr. Spencer, of only temporary val...ue— a feeUng due to transitory circumstances, which will fade away, when these other restraints have done their schoolmaster work, when the Law has prepared the o-round for the Gospel. The other element in self-control is the superior authoritativeness of the representative or more complex feelings, of the 'ideal' feelings, as compared with the simple sensations and appetites. Those feelings which are representative or ideal, which are concerned with indirect rather than immediate effects, and with effects general rather than with effects special, have on the whole, by their own IV] DUTY ' 335 character, and still more by the influence of tradition, educa- tion and experience, a preponderant authority over mere present impulses or sensations referring- to immediate g-ratification.
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