II. Of former Systems of Morality

IV. Division of Moral Duties.

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OF THE PRIVATE DUTIES OF MEN.

I. Or the Human Understanding, and its

Subordinate Faculties.

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III. Of Arrangement, and the Formation

of Language

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IX. Of the Appetites

X. Of the Benevolent Affections

XI. Of the Malevolent Affections

XII. Of the Passion of Avarice.

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XIV. Of Ambition, Emulation, Pride, and

the Love of Praise

XV. Of Curiosity.

XVI. Of the Passion for Reforming the

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IV. The same Subject continued

V. Duties of Religion, or of which the

Deity is the Object

VI. Different Religions compared

VII. Of a future State of Existence ... 470

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MORAL SCIENCE.

PART I.

GENERAL PRINCIPLES.

CHAP. I.

OF THE ULTIMATE OBJECT OF HUMAN PURSUIT.

MORALITY is that branch of science which proposes to regulate the actions of men.

The Science of Morals differs from every other science in this, that it is not occupied in the investigation of what is, or of what actually exists in the world; but in the discovery of what ought to be, or of what ought to exist. The excellence of history consists of its exhi

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a correct detail of what has actually been done by men. It is the business of what is called Natural History to give an account of all the plants, animals, and minerals that are to be found in the world. Metaphysics, or the natu ral history of mind, ought to describe the dispoVOL. I. A