A Treatise of Human Nature
BOOK III PART II SECTIONII. OF THEORIGIN OFJUSTICE ANDPROPERTY We now proceed to examine two questions, viz,concerning the manne ...
BOOK III PART II In other creatures these two particulars gener- ally compensate each other. If we consider the lion as a voraci ...
BOOK III PART II neither with arms, nor force, nor other natural abilities, which are in any degree answerable to so many necess ...
BOOK III PART II particular art; and as his force and success are not at all times equal, the least failure in either of these p ...
BOOK III PART II ties, whose remedies are remote and obscure, another necessity, which having a present and more obvious remedy, ...
BOOK III PART II ciety, as well as fashions them by degrees for it, by rubbing off those rough corners and unto- ward affections ...
BOOK III PART II of nature as any accounts of monsters, which we meet with in fables and romances. So far from thinking, that me ...
BOOK III PART II others, were they placed in a like situation. But though this generosity must be acknowl- edged to the honour o ...
BOOK III PART II which affords it an opportunity of exerting it- self. There are different species of goods, which we are posses ...
BOOK III PART II In vain should we expect to find, in unculti- vated nature, a remedy to this inconvenience; or hope for any ina ...
BOOK III PART II be guilty of any immorality, with regard to oth- ers, by considering the natural, and usual force of those seve ...
BOOK III PART II regardless of them, as, in any opposition of in- terest, to give the preference to a stranger, or mere chance a ...
BOOK III PART II the principal disturbance in society arises from those goods, which we call external, and from their looseness ...
BOOK III PART II petuous movement. Instead of departing from our own interest, or from that of our nearest friends, by abstainin ...
BOOK III PART II ner with regard to me. He is sensible of a like interest in the regulation of his conduct. When this common sen ...
BOOK III PART II contrary, this experience assures us still more, that the sense of interest has become common to all our fellow ...
BOOK III PART II gether unintelligible without first understand- ing the former. Our property is nothing but those goods, whose ...
BOOK III PART II ment of morals is founded on the nature of our passions, and gives the preference to ourselves and friends, abo ...
BOOK III PART II sequence, when indulged. Vanity is rather to be esteemed a social passion, and a bond of union among men. Pity ...
BOOK III PART II It is certain, that no affection of the human mind has both a sufficient force, and a proper direction to count ...
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