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', must supply the specific character of the conscience; and we must enter into an analysis of reason.

Such as the nature and objects of the reason are, such must be the functions and objects of the conscience.

And the former we shall best learn by recapitulating those constituents of the total man which are either contrary to, or disparate from, the reason.
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