CHAPTER I. |
DEFINITION AND GENERAL DIVISIONS. |
| | | PAGES |
1. | Definition and Statement of the Subject-matter | 15–17 |
2. | Historical Glance at the Beginning and Progress of the Science | 17–20 |
3. | Theoretical and Practical | 20–23 |
4. | Relations to Psychology, Natural Theology, and Christian Theology | 23–27 |
CHAPTER II. |
THE FACT OF MORAL DISTINCTIONS. |
1. | Revealed in Personal Consciousness | 28–29 |
2. | Incorporated in the Social Organism | 29 |
3. | Witnessed to in History | 29–31 |
4. | Shown in the Religious World | 31–33 |
5. | Pervades Literature | 33–34 |
6. | Ethnic and Anthropological Information | 34–35 |
7. | Unaffected by Theories of its Cause or Significance | 35–36 |
CHAPTER III. |
FACULTY OF MORAL DISTINCTIONS—THE EXISTENCE OF CONSCIENCE. |
1. | The Importance of this Question | 37–39 |
2. | Proofs of its Existence | 39–55 |
| 1. | The Moral Distinctions in Personal Consciousness and the World | 39–40 |
| 2. | The Peculiar Character of its Perceptions | 40–44 |
| 3. | Special Feelings from its Perceptions | 44–47 |
| 4. | Objection from Diversity of Moral Judgments Noticed | 47–53 |
| 5. | These Proofs Independent of the Mode of the Origin of the Power | 53–55 |
CHAPTER IV. |
THE FACULTY OF MORAL DISTINCTIONS—THE NATURE OF CONSCIENCE. |
1. | The Importance of Determining its Nature | 56–59 |
| 1. | For Scientific Accuracy | 56–57 |
| 2. | As Involving the Authority of Conscience | 57–59 |
2. | A Psychological Question | 59 |
3. | Conscience in place only in the Total Complex of Man's Psychical Powers | 59–224–225 |
5. | Through Spiritual Regeneration | 225–227 |