"Except in the innermost adoption of genuine moral principles in their disposition, and that to interfere with this adoption is surely not the so often blamed sensibility but a certain self-incurred perversity, or as we might otherwise also call this wickedness, fraud. This is a corruption that lies in all human beings and cannot be overcome except through the idea of the moral good in its absolute purity.
The author says that in order to fulfill our life's wishes and hark positivity in the world. According to the author, good is not something we create, but instead need to bring out. What is stopping this good from coming out is corruption, or what the author calls fraud. We need to find the absolute positivity and purity that lies already in ourselves and remove ourselves from the depths of darkness and capacity for evil.
"But from the point where Christian doctrine is built not on bare concepts of reason but on facts, it can now be called not only ‘the Christian religion’ but ‘the Christian faith’—on which a church has been built."
Here, the author makes a valid distinction between what we think and what we believe. The author says that religion isn't simply a reasoning that we are put before, but rather steps we take to convince ourselves of God's ways. He believes that a faith is instead an unconditional belief that is built with scholarship and faith is not just commanded but servile.
The restoration of the original predisposition to good in us is not therefore the acquisition of a lost incentive for the good, since we were never able to lose the incentive that consists in respect for the moral law … The restoration is therefore only the recovery of the purity of the law, as the supreme ground of all our maxims, according to which the law itself is to be incorporated into the power of choice, not merely bound to other incentives, nor indeed subordinated to them as conditions, but rather in its full purity,
The author believes our willingness to do right in the world never fully goes away and thus we always have a respect for the moral law that guides us in our everyday lives. Considering our malicious actions and shifting to moral standards makes us better people and is fully our choice. As long as we can suppress bad desires,. we are obeying the laws of the moral stature,
The statement "The human being is evil" cannot mean anything else than that he is conscious of the moral law and yet has incorporated into his maxim the (occasional) deviation from it.
The author says that the natural tendency of humans is to do what is right in society. When we change and go against these ideals, we are being evil and deviations themselves are evil. Evil itself is a premeditated effort to destroy ideals.
