As with character generally, moral character displays a kind of natural memory, a “perduring in simple willing [,] the natural beginning of unity and consistency of moral willing”, already evident in the small child’s incipient moral feeling (PS I: 199; cf. SW II: 120–1). All this points to the fact that in the objective or natural constitution of character, we already find “conceptions of the good and right”. This natural moral memory shows itself in the fact that 