Theory of morals: an inquiry concerning the law of moral distinctions and the variations and contradictions of ethical codes by Hildreth Richard 1807-1865

Author:Hildreth, Richard, 1807-1865. [from old catalog]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Ethics
Publisher: Boston, C. C. Little & J. Brown
Published: 1844-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

crimes, has of late, in consequence of the growing tendency towards these views, become more mild and humane, and has been compelled to walk in the train of morality. This, however, is a subserviency, to which the haughtier of the mystics, who still flatter themselves with the idea of being the peculiar favorites, the chosen servants, the appointed interpreters, and earthly vice-gerents of a deified image of themselves, do not submit without great reluctance, and many struggles, to throw off the yoke, and quitting the humble character of mere teachers of morality, to which, of late, they have been gradually restricted, to reestablish themselves, as of old, with the keys of heaven and hell in one hand, and an earthly sceptre in the other.

25. As the opinions above sketched, respecting the Deity, originated in the application to theology of three different theories of morals variously modified, it has happened of course, that all the various sects of the three great theological schools above described, have held views of human nature correspondent to their theological opinions. Those who have applied to theology the selfish theory of morals, have preached with consistent zeal the total depravity of man ; while those who have employed, in theology, the theory of pure benevolence, have run into the opposite extreme of representing men as by nature perfectly amiable and good, and all the evils of society as originating from something exterior, and therefore to be wholly removed by the removal of those exterior impediments. This is the doctrine of human perfectibility, preached by the French philosophers,

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