What has been said in the last chapter is really admitted by the
positive school themselves 77

As we can learn explicitly from George Eliot 78

In _Daniel Deronda_ 78

That the fundamental moral question is, '_In what way shall the
individual make life pleasant?_' 79

And the right way, for the positivists, as for the Christians, is
an inward way 80

The moral end is a certain inward state of the heart, and the
positivists say it is a sufficient attraction in itself, without
any aid from religion 81

And they support this view by numerous examples 82

But all such examples are useless 83

Because though we may get rid of religion in its pure form 83

There is much that we have not got rid of, embodied still in the
moral end 84

To test the intrinsic value of the end, we must sublimate this
religion out of it 86

For this purpose we will consider, first, the three general