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Show "T"" ""' Firstly, men do not tsco their duty with sufficient clearness; secondly, they do not i TTlltPk 'Snt'.on t d with sufficient force. But thcro aro great differences of WiSG opinion among thoughtful persons as to tho relative importance of theso different xrC5 sources of wrong conduct. Tho commonest (jqqjJ opinion is disposed to lay stress on the lat ter, the defect of feeling or will, and oven to ', consider tho defect of intellectual insight ' By P0r. HENRY SIDOWICK. ' C0'nParativcly Httlo practical im- portance. It is not uncommon to hear it . CZlZHlZmZIZmi3 8a'd by preachers and moralizcrs that wo all V y - "it know our duty quite sufficiently for prac tical purposes if wo could only spur or braco our wills into steady action in accordance with our convictions. It is no doubt true that if we suppose all our intellectual errors and limitations to remain unchanged, and only tho feebleness of character j which prevents our acting on our convictions removed, an inunenso im- ti provement would take place in many departments of human life. But it is important not to overlook-other inevitable results of tho supposed chango -which certainly would not bo improvements. Considerations of this kind have led some thoughtful minds to tako an exactly opposite view and to regard it of paramount importance to remove re-move tho intellectual source of error in conduct, holding with Socrates that ihe true good of each individual man really is consistent and harmonious with tho true good of all tho rest, and that what evory man really want is his own good if ho only know it. Suppose that every one who is liable to drink too much had clearly, presented to his mind in tho moment of tcmptatiou the full amount of harm that his insobriety was doing for his bodily health, his reputation, Jiis means of providing for thoso who look to him for support; some there are, no doubt, who would drink all tho same, but tho great majority of thoso not yet in bondngo to tho unnatural craving would draw back. Suppose again that any one who is wronging a neighbor saw, as clearly clear-ly as any impartial judge or friend would sec, tho violation of right that "he is committing, surely only a thoroughly bad man would persist in hit wrongdoings. And thoroughly bad men aro raro exceptions among tlio beings of checkered moral natures of whom tho great mas3 of mankind -consists. |