CHAPTER VIII THE VALUE OF MORAL CONFLICT

" By my Love and Hope, I conjure thee ; cast not away the Heio in thy soûl I " — Nibtzschb.

ARGUMENT

The Moral conflict has its individual and Us social aspect. The purpose of moral effort is directed to an end not to be realized in the moral plane, for Life is not interested in perfections, and a perfect moral being {or society) could only avise where the main Hfe-stream had receded. The perfect life is not that which is fttted to purpose or conformed to standard, but that which is lived loyally in self-expression from the heart. In con^ trast with the conventional social virtues, the true Virtue is the "health of the soûl." Moral pains, therefore, are the birth-pains of a deeper than the moral consciousness. There is a Beyond Morality. The opposition between good and evil must be faith^ fully dealt with, but must uUimately be transcended.. Carpenter dénies that there is a moral dualism ," good and evil are not properties inhérent in the nature of things, but are relative to the will, and ail things are good to the man who has mastery over them. To such a man Satan appeat^ ^ Lover and-