Excerpt from The Temple of Virtue Whether such, however, be the case or not, there can be no doubt that much of the dignity and worth of human charac ter depends upon the presence in people's lives of these or closely kindred qualities. The moral life and the religious life as well when we see it at its best and noblest is made up in large part of separate and clearly distinguishable vir tues. What these great Virtues are, whence they spring, how they declare themselves, and whither they conduct the soul, are things deserving careful and devout con sideration. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.