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OF CONTENTS.
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  2. Sec. 11. Necessity for submitting public spirit to the control of reason and virtue, evident
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    179
  3. CHAPTER V.
  4. OF MALEVOLENT AFFECTION
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    182
  5. Sec. 1. Of emulation and resentment
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    ib.
  6. 4. Effects of emulation in brute-animals
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    185
  7. 5. Definition of resentment
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    ib.
  8. 7. Children and rude nations generally ascribe life and intelligence to inanimate things
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    188
  9. 9. Agreements and disagreements between deliberate and mere animal resentment
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    189
  10. CHAPTER VI.
  11. OF PASSION
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    190
  12. Sec. 1. Passion, Disposition, Opinion
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    ib.
  13. 2. Definition of passion
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    191
  14. 5. Hume's paradoxes generally reducible to abuses of words
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    193
  15. 6. Common division of the passions
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    ib.
  16. 7. Influence of passion
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    194
  17. CHAPTER VII.
  18. OF DISPOSITION
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    198
  19. Sec. 3. The excellent consequences of good humour
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    199
  20. 5. Elation, magnanimity, a sense of honour and pride
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    200
  21. 6. Depression, humility, meanness
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    ib.
  22. CHAPTER VIII.
  23. OF OPINION
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    202
  24. Sec. 1. Influence of opinion upon our animal principles
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    ib.
  25. 4. Analogy between the discipline of body and mind
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    203
  26. 5. Man actuated by no sense of duty, considered
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    204
  27. PART III.

    OF THE RATIONAL PRINCIPLES OF ACTION.
    CHAPTER I.

  28. THERE ARE RATIONAL PRINCIPLES OF ACTION IN MAN
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    206
  29. Sec. 2. Hume's error as to one of the chief offices of reason
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    207
  30. CHAPTER II.
  31. OF REGARD TO OUR GOOD ON THE WHOLE
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    208
  32. Sec. 1. Chief spring of our early actions
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    ib.
  33. 2. The conception of what is good or ill for us upon the whole, the offspring of reason
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    209
  34. 4. Office of practical reason
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    211
  35. CHAPTER III.
  36. THE TENDENCY OF THIS PRINCIPLE
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    213
  37. Sec. 1. Question of the ancient moralists, "What is the greatest good ?"
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    ib.
  38. 2. Fallacy of the Epicurean doctrine
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    ib.
  39. 3. Doctrine of the Stoics not original
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    214
  40. 4. Recapitulation of what has been advanced relative to the rational principles of action
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    216
  41. CHAPTER IV.
  42. DEFECTS OF THIS PRINCIPLE
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    217
  43. Sec. 1. The rational principle of action not the only regulator of human conduct
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    ib.
  44. CHAPTER V.
  45. OF THE NOTION OF DOTY, RECTITUDE, MORAL OBLIGATION
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    221
  46. Sec. 1. A sense of interest, or a sense of duty, or both, necessary to the social state
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    ib.
  47. 2. Of a sense of duty only
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    ib.
  48. 3. The notion of this principle invariable, its extent not so
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    223
  49. 4. Reality of moral distinctions
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    ib.
  50. 6. Moral obligation a relation
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    225
  51. CHAPTER VI.
  52. OF THE SENSE OF DUTY
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    227
  53. Sec. 1. The moral sense,—the moral faculty,—conscience
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    ib.
  54. 2. This analogy excusable
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    ib.
  55. 3. Further shown
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    228
  56. 5. Universality of first principles
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    230
  57. 6. The first principles of morals are the immediate dictates of the moral faculty
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    230
  58. 7. Recapitulation
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    231
  59. CHAPTER VII.
  60. OF MORAL APPROBATION AND DISAPPROBATION
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    231