ence and sobriety in a
monkey under the discipline of the whip.{~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~} While the will is neither
gained, nor the inclination wrought upon, but awe alone prevails and
forces obedience, the obedience is servile, and all which is done through
it merely servile." That is, he says that Christianity is the enemy of
moral virtue, as influencing the mind by fear of God, not by love of good.

The motives then of hope and fear being, to say the least, put far into
the background, and nothing being morally good but what springs simply or
mainly from a love of virtue for its own sake, this love-inspiring quality
in virtue is its beauty, while a bad conscience is not much more than the
sort of feeling which makes us shrink from an instrument out of tune.
"Some by mere nature," he says, "others by art and practice, are masters
of an ear in music, an eye in painting, a fancy in the ordinary things of
ornament and grace, a judgment in proportions of all kinds, and a general
good taste in most of those subjects which make the amusement and delight
of the ingenious people of the world. Let such gentlemen as these be as
extravagant as they please, or as irregular in their morals, they must at
the same time discover their _inconsistency_, live at _variance_ with
themselves, and in _contradiction_ to that principle on which they ground
their highest pleasure and entertainment. Of all other _beauties_ which
virtuosos pursue, poets celebrate, musicians sing, and architects or
artists of whatever kind describe or form, the most delightful, the most
engaging and pathetic, is that which is drawn from real life and from the
passions. Nothing affects the heart like that which is purely from itself,
and of its own nature: such as the beauty of sentiments, the grace of
actions, the turn of characters, and the _proportions and features_ of a
human mind. This lesson of philosophy, even a romance, a poem, or a play
may teach us.{~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~} Let poets or the men of harmony deny, if they can, this
force of nature, or withstand this _moral magic_.{~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~} Every one is a virtuoso
of a higher or lower degree; every one pursues a grace {~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~} of one kind or
other. The _venustum_, the _honestum_, the _decorum_ of things will force
its way.{~HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS~} The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth;
for all beauty is truth."

Accordingly, virtue being only one kind of beauty,