[510] Summa, i. iiae. c. 5, 'Dilectio sui ipsius includitur in dilectione Dei et proximi; in hoc enim homo vere se diligit quod se ordinat in Deum.' Ib. ii. iiae. xix. 6, 'Homo se propter Deum, et in Deo diligit.' Aug. Serm., ccxvi. 8, 'Amate quod eritis: eritis enim filii Dei.' Pascal, Pensées, Art. xviii. 15, 'Que l'homme s'aime, car il a en lui une nature capable de bien.' Cp. Butler, Serm. i. etc.
[511] Sidgwick, Outlines etc., p. 108. Cp. Dorner, System, etc., p. 459 [Clark].
[512] Aug. de Civ. Dei, xiv. 28.
[513] See Ex. xxi. 33 foll.; Deut. xxii. 9 foll.; Levit. xix. etc. Summa, i. iiae. i. 2, 'Tota irrationalis natura comparatur ad Deum sicut instrumentum ad agens principale.'
[514] Consider Gen. ix. 10. Cp. Gen. viii. 1; Prov. xii. 10, etc.
[515] Martensen, Special Ethics (Indiv.), p. 278 [Clark].
[516] See Trench, Mediaeval Church History, Lect. XXVII. Cp. Plato, Phileb. 64 E foll.
[517] Ecce Homo, c. x. Cp. S. John xxi. 25.
[518] It is significant that Mr. Cotter Morison in his Service of Man discusses personal types of Christian saintliness.
[519] Dorner, System, etc., p. 377.