Elements of Morals / With Special Application of the Moral Law to the Duties of the Individual and of Society and the State

by Paul Janet

[142] See Dictionnaire de l’Académie française (7^e edition, 1878): “Veneration, respect for holy things. It is also said of the respectful esteem in which certain persons are held.”

[143] A postulate is a truth which, although it cannot be rigorously demonstrated should, nevertheless, by reason of the necessity of its consequences, be practically admitted.

[144] Kant, Critique de la raison pratique, II., ii. Trad. de J. Barni, p. 334.

[145] Critique de la raison pratique; trad. fr., p. 363.

[146] Jules Simon, La Liberté de Conscience, 4^e leçon (Paris, 1857).—We have borrowed some few passages of another book of the same author, La Liberté (Vol. ii., 4^e, part 1, ch. 1).

[147] Fénélon. Lettres sur la métaphysique et la religion. Letter II., ch. i.

[148] The works of Epictetus. T. W. Higginson’s transl., I., xvi.

[149] De Augmentis Scientiarum, III., i. and iii.

[150] Kant, Anthropologie. Trad. franc. de Tissot, p. 27.

[151] Kant gives ingenious examples of these three degrees of action. See his Anthropologische charakteristik.