, or identity, and therefore the required proper character of man. Conscience, then, is a witness respecting the identity of the will and the reason effected by the self-subordination of the will, or self, to the reason, as equal to, or representing, the will of God. But the personal will is a factor in other moral
syntheses
; for example, appetite
plus
personal will=sensuality; lust of power,
plus
personal will,=ambition, and so on, equally as in the
synthesis
, on which the conscience is grounded. Not this therefore, but the other
synthesis