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Moral Sense

It has been objected (Miss Cobbe &c) that the strength of Repentance cannot be accounted for by weighing of 2 instincts - expiation – guilt. This seems to be an erroneous conclusion. What a strong feeling must tempt a man to save drowning child, for whom no affection or little heroic monkey or elephant the [illeg] & because in man that throughout life such actions have been highly praised & opposite dispraised - again the [illeg] being the saving life & what have developed & the sympathies leading us to appreciate praise & blame despair, are not mere

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temporary instincts but enduring can some wonder that he who vividly recalls the past may feel an agony of remorse.