'Dreadful consequences are derivable to Society caused by a
plausible word wrested from its proper sense.'

C. DAUBENY: Guide to the Church

'It is necessary to know what conscience properly is, for of
the number that make use of the word nineteen in twenty perhaps
may be ignorant of its true meaning.'

ibid.

'Es ist überhaupt kein philosophischer Begriff gewesen,
sondem er gehörte zu der grossen, noch allzu wenig erforschten
Gmppe sittlicher Begriffe, die die philosophische Ethik als das ihr
durch die Volkspsyche gebotene Material übemahm.'

NORDEN: Agnostos Theos

'This watchful auxiliary of the soul may be lulled to sleep but
it can never die; it may be deadened but can never perish utterly.
Happy is the man in whom it never sleeps. If it pain him the
pain is for his good: it is as a thorn to guard him from the
briers of iniquity: if he disregard it sad indeed be the after pangs
and numberless the sore bruises. Let him but commit a crime:
the little tell-tale conscience wakes and all happiness is gone.'

MICKLE: Conscience - a Tale of Life

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