It is not necessary, for the present purpose, to decide whether the feeling of duty is innate or implanted. Assuming it to be innate, it is an open question to what objects it naturally attaches itself; for the philosophic supporters of perception is of that theory are now agreed that the intuitive principles of morality and not of the details. If there be anything
innate in the matter,
see no reason why the feeling which is innate should not be that of regard to the pleasures and pains of others. If there is any principle of morals which obligatory, I should say it must be that. If so is intuitively the intuitive ethics would coincide with the utilitarian, and there would be no further quarrel between them. Even as it moralists, though they believe that there are is, the intuitive other intuitive moral obligations, do already believe this to be one for they unanimously hold that a large portion of morality turns upon the consideration due to the interests Therefore, if the belief in the of our fellow-creatures. transcendental origin of moral obligation gives any additional efficacy to the internal sanction, it appears to me that the utilitarian principle has already the benefit of it.