39. The inner nature of the world consists in emotion. 72. The normal course of development of the character. 73. The poetic and religious types CHAPTER I. NATURE AND METHOD OF ETHIC. Insino a qui l' un giogo di Parnaso Assai mi fu; ma or con amendue M'è uopo entrar nell' aringo rimaso. Dante. BOOK I. § 1. Metaphysic. § 1. 1. I PROPOSE in the present work to complete the examination of the phenomena which belong properly to Metaphysic, that is, phenomena which can Ethic a part of be satisfactorily treated only from a subjective point of view or in their subjective aspect, by examining in some detail the feelings and actions of man, his judgments on them, and the moral and legal conceptions which he deduces from or builds upon them. One half of the total examination of these phenomena has already been performed in a work entitled "Time and Space, a Metaphysical Essay;" and the analysis there contained serves both to mark out the field remaining to be explored, and to furnish the principles and the framework, in other terms, the Logic, to be applied in its exploration. In that work it was maintained that phenomena, the whole world of phenomena in the widest sense of the term, and |