C.

=15.= The relations which ethical judgments assert to hold universally between ‘goodness’ and other things are of two kinds: a thing may be asserted either to _be_ good itself or to be causally related to something else which is itself good--to be ‘good as a means.’ 21

=16.= Our investigations of the latter kind of relation cannot hope to establish more than that a certain kind of action will _generally_ be followed by the best possible results; 22

=17.= but a relation of the former kind, if true at all, will be true of all cases. All ordinary ethical judgments assert _causal_ relations, but they are commonly treated as if they did not, because the two kinds of relation are not distinguished. 23