...incentive to act up to their highest feelings and convictions. To call these sentiments by the name morality, exclusively of any other title, is claiming...the emotions and desires towards an ideal object, recognized as of the highest excellence, and as rightfully paramount over all selfish objects of desire....

...meaning usually suggested by the word morality) are only a part, and are indeed rather the fruits of tho religion than the religion itself. The essence of...the emotions and desires towards an ideal object, recognized as of the highest excellence, and as rightfully paramount over all selfish objects of desire....

...not be regarded as a necessary property of religion, should, a few pages afterwards, pen the words, "The essence of religion is the strong and earnest...of the emotions and desires towards an ideal object recognized as of the highest excellence, and as rightfully paramount over all selfish objects of desire."f...

...zeker. Als hij het voor zijne Rdigio* of Hunanity noodig heeft, geeft hij deze schoone bepaling: ȕhe essence of religion is the strong and earnest direction of the emotions and dosires towards an idcal object, recoguized as of the highest excellence, and as rightfnlly paramount...

...imagination and feelings in their idealizing mood. " The essence of religion," he says, " is the strongest and earnest direction of the emotions and desires towards an ideal object, recognized as of the highest excellence, and as rightfully paramount over all selfish objects of desire....

...indeed rather the fruits of religion than the religion itself. The essence of religion," he continues, " is the strong and earnest direction of the emotions and desires towards an ideal object, recognized as of the highest excellence, and as rightfully paramount over all selfish objects of desire....

...Professor Bain, " an affair of the feelings."* " The essence of religion," observes John Stuart Mill, " is the strong and earnest direction of the emotions and desires towards an ideal object." " It must be allowed," says Dr. Mansel, 2 " that it is not through reasoning that men obtain their...

...and paramount over all selfish objects of desire ? In what he says of the essence of religion being the strong and earnest direction of the emotions and desires towards an object of that kind, is he not being drawn by that passion of his for seizing above all else the ethical...

...Religion," Mill gives two different definitions or descriptions of religion. In the first he says that " the essence of religion is the strong and earnest...the emotions and desires towards an ideal object, recognized as of the highest excellence, and as rightfully paramount over all selfish objects of desire."...

...Religion," Mill gives two different definitions or descriptions of religion. In the first he says that " the essence of religion is the strong and earnest direction of the emotions and desires toward an ideal object, recognized as of the highest excel lence, and as rightfully paramount over...