CHAPTER IX

The Ethical Sanction

The Individual and the Whole 208

A Scale of Motives 210

Conscience and its Commands, how respectively Derived 211

Results of Duty and of Self-indulgence Compared 212

The False and the True Asceticism 214

Ethics for Life: Implications of this Doctrine 220

Is Life Dependent on Matter? 222

The Cosmic Life gives Immortality to the Individual 225

And Demands his Allegiance 226

Ethics Originates in the Visible Order, but does not end there 228

Hence, Ethics is for Death as well as Life 229

The Martyrdoms of Socrates and of Christ 230

Outline of the Conclusions arrived at 233