The muscular Christian who believes that continence is achieved by physical fatigue is as short-sighted as he who would treat the whole matter as a purely ethical problem.

" He is very human; but his humanity is deeply ethical in character.

If we look at the downright ethical significance of the methods of training and discipline in many families and schools, we see that they are positively degrading.

It should be borne in mind, however, that the aim of George Eliot is not exclusively ethical.

In the earlier part of his life-work, recorded in the earlier portion of his book, he was thoroughly prophetic, intensely ethical and spiritual, breathing the very spirit of his great master, Jeremiah.

For the real foundation of even the lightest of Stevenson's works is invariably ethical.

The Essays which are reproduced, which he wrote for Birmingham literary societies, are of the same quality, serious, ordinary, prosaic, mildly ethical.

In an article in the Christian Remembrancer, January 1846 (p. 169), after speaking of the obvious reasons of Mr. Newman's influence, he proceeds: We inquire further, and we find that this influence has been of a peculiarly ethical and inward kind; that it has touched the deepest part of our minds, and that the great work on which it has been founded is a practical, religious onehis Sermons.

In his economic essays Ruskin is even more directly and positively ethical.

Not only had this idealist movement in its beginnings a predominantly ethical tone.

He was human in all his sympathies, perhaps not so religious as Aeschylus, but as severely ethical; not so sublime, but more perfect in art.

As to strictly ethical doctrines, the teachings of Confucius were the most prolific source of Bushido.

For a man who never missed an opportunity to force his attentions, he was showing an amazingly ethical viewpoint.

On the whole, with some notable exceptions, the Dissenting preachers seem to have been decorously dull, and uninspiringly ethical.