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March 2d /72. Moral Sense Effects of Habit, independently of Happiness

After When I say that actions may be prompted by habit, independently of happiness derived from performing them, add & enlarge. He who inherits the social instincts very strongly developed, ie. is strongly philanthropical; philanthropical & it may well be that he likewise inherits a tendency to certain virtues & perhaps religious tendencies, will be urged to noble actions & high aspirations with irresistible force; & he will be thus urged, not only independently of any silent joy such actions may give him, but at the expense of his own happiness He will afterwards feel that there lies within him some strong impulse innately nobler than the search for enjoyment. (He will be compelled to take up the cross & carry it) There is nothing more improbable in mans being than urged onwards by a sense of right with the lofty path of duty, then is a bird being compelled to migrate & desert her tender offspring & by higher

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