The leading characteristics of modern societies are in consequence marked out much more by the triumphs of inventive skill than by the sustained energy of moral causes.
Suffer me to lay before you three considerations, which will prove to you at once that this great moral question is more vital to our two nations than to any other, and that we are peculiarly vulnerable to the action of moral causes.
Few, I think, would deny that the rapid decadence of Greece, despite her splendid intellectual life, was due to moral causes.
For the due operation of moral causes, indeed, certain circumstances are required in the individual on whom they are expected to operate, and, without these, they may fail in their operation.
There are individuals who, from various physical or moral causes,” says Esquirol, “fall into a state of corporeal torpor and mental depression.
It is also a peculiarity belonging to the kind of evidence on which religion rests for proof, that it offers an opportunity for the subtle influence of moral causes, where at first sight intellectual might seem alone to act.
Does it prove that they are brought to pass by the influence of moral causes?
And if all human volitions will be brought to pass, by the operation of moral causes; then this manner of their existence is foreknown to God, and will all come to pass in this way; but to take this for granted, is to beg the question.
Now, how can we conclude from hence, that the volitions of moral agents are, not only certain, but rendered certain by the influence of moral causes?
Volitions are said to be morally necessitory in their definition, and in their system, because they are made certain by the influence of moral causes.
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