Nor is this a mere profession only.

We shall see that the system logically requires it.

One of its chief virtues--indeed the only virtue in it we have defined hitherto--is, as has been seen, an habitual self-denial.

But a denial of what?
Of something, plainly, that if denied to ourselves, can be conveyed as a negative or positive good to others.
But the good things that are thus transferable cannot plainly be the '_highest good_,' or morality would consist largely of a surrender of its own end.

This end must evidently be something inward and inalienable, just as the religious end was.