If we maintain that virtuous love constitutes its own heaven, we must also maintain that vicious love constitutes its own hell.

If we cannot do the last we certainly cannot do the first.

And the positive school can do neither.

It can neither elevate one kind of love nor depress the others; and for this reason.

The results of love in both cases are, according to their teaching, bounded by our present consciousness; and our present consciousness, divorced from all future expectation, has no room in it for so vast an interval as all moral systems postulate between the right love and the wrong.