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Logic IV 26
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The very serious and important task which I now propose to myself and to the reader is that we now pass in review together all the different classes of objects which it is natural to regard as being good, that is desireable in themselves apart from any ulterior advantages and to estimate their real value in themselves. It will be a long and somewhat dull study it is true but I cannot conceive that any man who care at all to reflect should now thinking that it was worth the time and attention it call for. There is not ultimate source of evidence on these questions other than our own heart and conscience, if I may be permitted to call this synesis or faculty of direct appreciation by the name of consicence. But we are by no means to think that the utternaces of this faculty are infallible. On the contrary, nobody