Different Views on Conscience
( Morality)
•3. This view is favoured also by Carlyle in his"Essay on Characteristics", and 4. by Dr. Mackenzie in his "Manual of Ethics" (3rd ed., III, 14), where weread: "I should prefer to say simply that conscience is a feeling of pain accompanying and resulting from non‐conformity to principle.“
•Carlyle says we should not observe that we had a conscience if we had never offended.