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" This conscious relinquishment of immediate and special good to gain distant and general good, while it is a cardinal trait of the self-restraint called moral, is also a cardinal trait of self-restraints other than those called moral — the restraints... "
An Epitome of the Synthetic Philosophy - Page 526
by Frederick Howard Collins - 1889 - 18 pages
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The Data of Ethics

Herbert Spencer - 1879 - 322 pages
...each generation as it grows up. And here we are introduced to certain facts of profound significance. This conscious relinquishment of immediate and special...doing that which the passing desire prompts, lest he should afterwards suffer legal punishment, or divine vengeance, or public reprobation, or all of...
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The Data of Ethics

Herbert Spencer - 1879 - 320 pages
...introduced to certain facts of profound ^significance. This conscious relinquishment of immediate Vand special good to gain distant and general good, while...doing that which the passing desire prompts, lest he should afterwards suffer legal punishment, or divine vengeance, or public reprobation, or all of...
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The Data of Ethics

Herbert Spencer - 1879 - 320 pages
...introduced to certain facts of profound significance. This conscious relinquishment of immediateand special good to gain distant and general good, while...cardinal trait of self-restraints other than those called moral—the restraints that originate from fear of the visible ruler, of the invisible ruler, and of...
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Kantian Ethics and the Ethics of Evolution: A Critical Study

Jacob Gould Schurman - 1881 - 128 pages
...this might be taken as 7 the meaning of the above passage, had not Mr. Spencer elsewhere said, the " conscious relinquishment of immediate and special good to gain distant and general good . . . . is a cardinal trait of the self-restraint called moral" (p. 114). But that this is no part...
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Kantian Ethics and the Ethics of Evolution: A Critical Study

Jacob Gould Schurman - 1881 - 136 pages
...might be taken as ' 7 the meaning of the above passage, had not Mr. Spencer — elsewhere said, the " conscious relinquishment of immediate and special good to gain distant and general good . . . . is a cardinal trait of the self-restraint called moral" (p. 114). But that this is no part...
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An Examination of the Structural Principles of Mr. Herbert Spencer's ...

William David Ground - 1883 - 392 pages
...and of pre-social man : — " And here we are introduced to certain facts of profound significance. This conscious relinquishment of immediate and special...doing that which the passing desire prompts, lest he should afterwards suffer legal punishment, or divine vengeance, or public reprobation, or all of...
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An Examination of the Structural Principles of Mr. Herbert Spencer's ...

William David Ground - 1883 - 394 pages
...and of pre-social man : — " And here we are introduced to certain facts of profound significance. This conscious relinquishment of immediate and special...doing that which the passing desire prompts, lest he should afterwards suffer legal punishment, or divine vengeance, or public reprobation, or all of...
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The Data of Ethics

Herbert Spencer - 1883 - 344 pages
...each generation as it grows up. And here we are introduced to certain facts of profound significance. This conscious relinquishment of immediate and special...moral — the restraints that originate from fear of tho visible ruler, of the invisible ruler, and of society at large. Whenever the individual refrains...
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Present Day Tracts on Subjects of Christian Evidence, Doctrine ..., Volume 8

Religious Tract Society (Great Britain) - 1883 - 374 pages
...one moment he speaks of the control of one feeling by another, and the next moment speaks of the " conscious relinquishment of immediate and special good, to gain distant and general good " as "a cardinal trait of the selfrestraint called moral " (p. 114). Is this conscious relinquishment...
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The Evolution Hypothesis: A Criticism of the New Cosmic Philosophy

William Todd Martin - 1887 - 344 pages
...moral consciousness — " the control of some feeling or feelings by some other feeling or feelings." "This conscious relinquishment of immediate and special...ruler, of the invisible ruler, and of society at large Eventually the moral control, with its accompanying conceptions and sentiments, emerges as independent...
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