 And the root of our moral sentiments in human nature is further evidence that morality is not, as suggested by Balguy, arbitrary. This is because, after all, we are created by a benevolent deity (Rauscher 2003). And no benevolent deity would have chosen to impart a disposition to praise, e.g., ill-will, cruelty, pain, hatred, and so forth as principles of human nature (Essay 132). (Indeed, this passage reveals a key error in Frankena’s criticism of a “subjectivist”, rather than non-cognitivist, approach to Hutcheson’s metaethics. According to Frankena, the subjectivist view is 