The Moral Economy

by Ralph Barton Perry

[14] Maurice Maeterlinck: The Measure of the Hours, translated by A. T. de Mattos, p. 151. The essay in this volume, entitled "Our Anxious Morality," charges rationalism with destroying the romantic and mystical element in life.

CHAPTER III

[1] A good discussion of the several virtues will be found in Paulsen: Op. cit., Book III.

[2] W. H. S. Jones: Greek Morality, p. 50.

[3] Jeremy Taylor: Rules and Exercises of Holy Living, edited by Ezra Abbot, p. 73.

[4] Jones: Op. cit., p. 124.

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[5] Count Baldesar Castiglione: The Book of the Courtier, translated by Opdycke, p. 250.

[6] Cf. Hobbes: Leviathan, Chapters XIII, XIV, XV. In Hobbes's account, morality is reduced wholly to the prudential economy.

[7] H. G. Wells: First and Last Things, p. 82.