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The modern positive school requires a great general enthusiasm for the general good 73 They therefore presuppose an extreme value for the individual good 74 Our first enquiry must be therefore what the higher individual good is 76

CHAPTER IV.
GOODNESS AS ITS OWN REWARD.

What has been said in the last chapter is really admitted by the positive school themselves	77
As we can learn explicitly from George Eliot	78
In Daniel Deronda	78
That the fundamental moral question is, 'In what way shall the individual make life pleasant?'	79
And the right way, for the positivists, as for the Christians, is an inward way	80
The moral end is a certain inward state of the heart, and the positivists say it is a sufficient attraction in itself, without any aid from religion	81
And they support this view by numerous examples	82
But all such examples are useless	83
Because though we may get rid of religion in its pure form	83
There is much that we have not got rid of, embodied still in the moral end	84
To test the intrinsic value of the end, we must sublimate this religion out of it	86
For this purpose we will consider, first, the three general characteristics of the moral end, viz.	88
Its inwardness	88
Its importance	89
And its absolute character	91
Now all these three characteristics can be explained by religion	93
And cannot be explained without it	96
The positive moral end must therefore be completely divested of them	100
The next question is, will it be equally attractive then?	100

CHAPTER V.
LOVE AS A TEST OF GOODNESS.

The positivists represent love as a thing whose value is self-dependent	101
And which gives to life a positive and incalculable worth	103
But this is supposed to be true of one form of love only	104
And the very opposite is supposed to hold good of all other forms	105
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