characteristics of the moral end, viz. 88

Its inwardness 88

Its importance 89

And its absolute character 91

Now all these three characteristics can be explained by religion 93

And cannot be explained without it 96

The positive moral end must therefore be completely divested of
them 100

The next question is, will it be equally attractive then? 100


CHAPTER V.

LOVE AS A TEST OF GOODNESS.


The positivists represent love as a thing whose value is
self-dependent 101

And which gives to life a positive and incalculable worth 103

But this is supposed to be true of one form of love only 104