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Whewell's chief Ethical works are, 'Elements of Morality, including Polity, and 'Lectures on the History of Moral Philosophy in England. We may refer for his views to either work. In the Preface he indicates the general scope of the work.
Woolsey on International Law. No Place for Lying in Medical Ethics. Opinions and Experiences of Physicians. Pliny's Story of Roman Matron. Victor Hugo's Sister Simplice. Words of Abbé Sicard. Tact and Principle. Legal Ethics. Whewell's View. Opinion of Chief-Justice Sharswood. Mistakes of Dr. Hodge. Lord Brougham's Claim. False Charge against Charles Phillips.
Not content with these five express moral principles, he considers that the Supreme Law requires, as adjuncts, two other virtues; to these he gives the names EARNESTNESS, or Zeal, and MORAL PURPOSE, meaning that everything whatsoever should be done for moral ends. V. The relation of Ethics to Politics in Whewell's system is one of intimacy, and yet of independence.
In March, 1854, he wrote, "People talk a good deal about that book of Whewell's on the Plurality of Worlds. I recommend Fields to pirate it. Have you seen it? Hence we conclude we are the only rational creatures, which is highly satisfactory, and, what is more, quite Scriptural.
Of Doctor Whewell's attempt to prove that our planet is the only one inhabited she spoke with disapprobation; she said she believed that the other planets might be inhabited by beings of a higher order than ourselves. On subsequent visits, Mrs. Somerville had much to say of the Americans.
But all that need be contended for is that the intellect perceives not only truth, but also a quality of "higher" which ought to be followed, and of "lower" which ought to be avoided; when two lines of conduct are presented to the will for choice, the intellect so acting being the conscience. This has been well put by Mr. James Martineau in his excellent essay on Whewell's Morality.
"It is said that the present master does not much like to submit to this position. "In this great room hang full-length portraits of Henry and Elizabeth. On another wall is a portrait of Newton, and on a third the sweet face of a young girl, Dr. Whewell's niece, of whom I heard him speak as 'Kate. "Dr.
But while Whewell's general objection to the theory that Jupiter or Saturn is in the same condition as our earth thus acquires new force, the particular explanation which he gave of the planet's small density is open to precisely the same general objection.
Whewell's attempt to prove that our planet was the only one inhabited by reasoning beings; she believed that a higher order of beings than ourselves might people them. "On subsequent visits there were many questions from Mrs. Somerville in regard to the progress of science in America. She regretted, she said, that she knew so little of what was done in our country.
"We arrived in Cambridge just about at lunch time one o'clock. "Mrs. Airy said to me, 'Although we are invited to be guests of Dr. Whewell, he is quite too mighty a man to come to meet us." Her sons, however, met us, and we walked with them to Dr. Whewell's. "The Master's Lodge, where Dr. Whewell lives, is one of the buildings composing the great pile of Trinity College.
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