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If you think this statement too vague, I will say, more specifically, that there are three ways in which these ideals usually recommend themselves and justly do so.
In the first place certain kinds of conduct where the man comtemplates them have an esthetic quality.
[?e] thinks that conduct fine; and though his notion may be coarse or sentimental, yet if so it will alter in time and must tend to be brought into harmony with his nature,
At any rate, his taste is his taste for the time being; that is all.
In the second place the man endevors to shape his ideals into consistency with each other, for inconsistency is or odious to him.
In the third place, he imagines what the consequences of fully carrying out his ideals would be, and asks himself what the esthetic quality of those consequences would be.
This ideals, however have