Bradley in Journal of Ethics, Oct. 1894.

Mackenzie, in Journal of Ethics, Apr. 1895.




VII

NATURE AND SPIRIT

I


At this culmination of our long discussion, a discussion much confused
by its necessary mass of details, it may be well to pause a moment, to
fix attention on the great lines along which we have been moving, and
to mark the points on which they appear to converge. We have regarded
goodness as divided into two very unequal parts. The first two
chapters treated of goodness in general, a species which being shared
alike by persons and things is in no sense distinctive of persons. The
last four chapters have been given to the more complex task of
exploring the goodness of persons.

In things we found that goodness consists in having their manifold
parts drawn into integral wholeness. And this is true also of persons.
But the modes of organization in the two cases were so unlike as to
require long elucidation. Our conclusion would seem to be that while
goodness is everywhere expressive of organization, personal conduct is
good only when consciously organized, guided, and aimed at the