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...treat of those of his actions, where ideals are paramount and where facts must be made to correspond. The distinction between the descriptive sciences and ethics is well shown by calling them the natural and the moral sciences respectively. The moral sciences can not be described by the "Verb "is"; "ought" expresses them effectively. Ethical problems can not be solved by an appeal to physical, psychological, or historical facts. At the same time it is true that the moral sciences without the facts of the descriptive as a basis are empty; the descriptive without the ideals of the normative...