Page:A Letter to Adam Smith on the Life, Death, and Philosophy of his friend David Hume (1777).djvu/59

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OF THE MORALITY HUMAN ACTIONS.

That every human action is necessary, and could not have been different from what it is.

That moral, intellectual, and corporeal virtues are nearly of the same kind—In other words, that to want honesty, and to want understanding, and to want a leg, are equally the objects of moral disapprobation.

That adultery must be practised, if men would obtain all

    a thing must it be, for one, that has been so reduced, to return to the house of his heavenly Father, where there is bread enough, and to spare—to know the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom he hath sent!