ABSTRACT
Ethics, as that branch of philosophy which deals with right or proper conduct, has to take into consideration everything about conduct except the one thing which to the Bible is central, namely, God. The assertion borne out by the facts is that theology, the precise consideration of the objects of the Christian consciousness, has done little or nothing for the scientific examination of our ideas of conduct. Science consists in the quest for definitions; ethics, as a science, consists in the quest for definitions on all subjects connected with conduct considered as right and wrong. Scientific Christian thought has paid little attention to psychology. Its incursions into psychological territory have been chiefly for the purpose of deciding whether the nature of man is tri-partite or bi-partite. But without psychology, there can be no clear appreciation of the problems of morality. In England, the last half of the nineteenth century, went far to shift the ground from psychology to biology.
