Thus moral teachers expect psychologists to explain the curious phenomenon of miserliness which places an absolute value upon the mere possession of the means for a more than comfortable condition of life (or for any other goal) while resolving never to use them, or to explain that craving for honour on the part of those who take reputation itself as their only goal and direct their precepts less to moral laws themselves than to the removal of obstacles which impede the inﬂuence of such laws.