The spirit of self-sacrifice;
The confidence of reason give;
And in the light of truth thy Bondman let me live!"
Wordsworth. Poems, 1807.
SYNOPSIS OF CHAPTER VII.
The object of this Chapter is to shew that the universally enforced maxim of Responsibility unites in itself two factors.
(1.) A true power of Causation, as explained in Chapter VI.
(2.) A moral distinction of Right and Wrong.
This second element of Responsibility is next investigated, and the Moral antithesis shewn to be inalienable. Right can never be Wrong, nor Wrong ever Right. Justice must certainly prevail at last.