...appetite, but as from its very nature manifestly claiming superiority over all others, insomuch that you cannot form a notion of this faculty, conscience,...to it Had it strength as it has right, had it power »s it lias authority, it would absolutely govern the world."* He * Human Nature, Sermon ii. adds,...

...that " from the very economy and constitution of man," its business is " to preside and govern." " Had it strength as it has right, had it power as it...manifest authority, it would absolutely govern the world." It is in his summing up at the close of his third sermon, that Butler's substantial agreement...

...the lowest appetites, but likewise as being superior, insomuch that you cannot form a notion of it without taking in judgment, direction, superintendency. This is a constituent part of the idea of the faculty itself, and to preside and govern from the very economy and constitution of man belongs...

...in nature, supreme over all others, and which bears its own authority of being so.' — Sermon n. ' You cannot form a notion of this faculty, conscience, without taking in judgment, direction, superintendence' — Ib. ' Had it strength, as it has right ; had it power, as it has manifest authority,...

...superior, as, from its very nature, manifestly claiming superiority over all others, insomuch that you cannot form a notion of this faculty, conscience,...manifest authority, it would absolutely govern the world."—Butler. PRIDE. " Is there anything written concerning the Assyrian monarch in the tenth of...

...the eternal Law of Righteousness. The supremacy of conscience is, ,as Butler says in another passage, "a constituent part of the idea, that is, of the faculty...constitution of man, belongs to it. Had it strength as it had right, had it power as it had manifest authority, it would absolutely govern the world."1 Butler's...

...particular of the species, a izHuyu feeling common to mankind," when he finely says of conscience, " Had it strength as it has right, had it power as it...manifest authority, it would absolutely govern the world," — in all this Butler is m contact with the most precious truth and reality, and so far as...

...particular of the species, a fellow feeling common to mankind," when he finely says of conscience, " Had it strength as it has right, had it power as it...manifest authority, it would absolutely govern the world ;" — in all this Butler is in contact with the most precious truth and reality, and so far...

...inflicted by conscience ? Conscience, says Butler, brings with it its own credentials ; the supremacy is ' a constituent part of the idea, that is, of the faculty itself ; '3 it is implied in the very meaning of the word duty. The conception of a self-evidencing power...

...the examination of the testimony yielded by that portion of his nature of which it has been said — "Had it strength as it has right ; had it power as...manifest authority, it would absolutely govern the world.1 Ethics, or the science of morals, presents three fundamental problems answering to the three...