By calling the moral end inward, I mean that it resides primarily not in action, but in motives to action; in the will, not in the deed; not in what we actually do, but in what we actually endeavour to do; in the love we give, rather than in the love that we receive.
What defiles a man is that which comes out of his heart--evil thoughts, murders, adulteries.

The thoughts may never find utterance in a word, the murders and adulteries may never be fulfilled in act; and yet, if a man be restrained, not by his own will, but only by outer circumstances, his immorality will be the same.

The primary things we are '_responsible for_,' observes a recent positive writer,[12] are '_frames of mind into which we knowingly and willingly work ourselves_': and when these are once wrong, he adds, '_they are wrong for ever: no accidental failure of their good or evil fruits can possibly alter that_.' And as with what is wrong or vicious, so with what is right or virtuous; this in a like manner proceeds out of the mind or heart.

'_The gladness of true heroism_,' says Dr.Tyndall, '_visits the heart of him who is really competent to say, "I court truth."_' It is not, be it observed, the objective attainment of truth that creates the gladness.

It is the subjective desire, the subjective resolution.