...you cannot form a notion of this Faculty — Conscience — without taking in judgment, direction, superintendency. This is a constituent part of the...and to preside and govern from the very economy and constitui tion of Man belongs to it. Had it strength as it has right, had it power as it has manifest...

...notion of the faculty of conscience without taking in judgment, direction, superintendency. This is n constituent part of the idea, that is, of the faculty...very economy and constitution of man, belongs to it.' 'There is a superior principle of reflection, or conscience, in every man, which distinguishes between...

...just claims to a supremacy over reason, and the passions, propensities and appetites of our nature. " To preside and govern, from the very economy and constitution of man, belongs to it. This faculty was placed within to be our proper governor, to direct and regulate all undue principles,...

...sentences. ' You cannot form a notion of 'the faculty Conscience, without taking in judgment, ' direction, superintendency. This is a constituent part ' of the idea; that is of the faculty itself; and to pre' side and govern, from the very economy and constitu' tion of man, belongs to it. Had it strength...

...masterly discourses on ' Human Nature,' in •which he says of Conscience (in its widest acceptation), ' Had it strength, as it has right ; had it power as it has manifest anthority ; it would absolutely govern the world : ' and he proves it. inexpugnable immobility. The...

...insomuch that you cannot form a notion of this faculty, conscience, without taking in judgment, direction, superintendency. This is a constituent part of the...to it Had it strength as it has right, had it power »s it lias authority, it would absolutely govern the world."* He * Human Nature, Sermon ii. adds,...

...the eternal Law of Righteousness. The supremacy of conscience is, ,as Butler says in another passage, "a constituent part of the idea, that is, of the faculty...constitution of man, belongs to it. Had it strength as it had right, had it power as it had manifest authority, it would absolutely govern the world."1 Butler's...

...inflicted by conscience ? Conscience, says Butler, brings with it its own credentials ; the supremacy is ' a constituent part of the idea, that is, of the faculty itself ; '3 it is implied in the very meaning of the word duty. The conception of a self-evidencing power...

...objects. However weak the conscience may be in point of fact, G-od has stamped authority upon its brow ; " to preside and govern, from the very economy and constitution of man, belongs to it. Had it strength, as it had right ; had it power, as it had manifest authority, it would absolutely govern the world." Lord...

...insomuch that you cannot form a notion of this faculty, conscience, without taking in judgment, direction, superintendency. This is a constituent part of the...very economy and constitution of man, belongs to it." 8 Butler's idea as to the nature of conscience is, as Mackintosh points out, somewhat vague ; and it...