The moral end, for the positivist just as much as for the believer, is a certain inward state of the heart, or mind--a state which will of necessity, if possible, express itself in action, but whose value is not to be measured by the success of that expression.

The battle-ground of good and evil is within us; and the great human event is the issue of the struggle between them.
And this leads us on to the second point.

The language used on all hands respecting this struggle, implies that its issue is of an importance great out of all proportion to our own consciousness of the results of it, nay, even that it is independent of our consciousness.

It is implied that though a man may be quite ignorant of the state of his own heart, and though no one else can so much as guess at it, what that state is is of great and peculiar moment.

If this were not so, and the importance of our inner state had reference only to our own feelings about it, self-deception would be as good as virtue.