A Treatise of Human Nature

BOOK III PART II As publick praise and blame encrease our es- teem for justice; so private education and in- struction contribut ...

BOOK III PART II the most deeply radicated in our internal con- stitution. What farther contributes to encrease their so- lidity ...

BOOK III PART II in the state of nature, or that imaginary state, which preceded society, there be neither justice nor injustice ...

BOOK III PART II SECTIONIII. OF THERULES WHICH DETERMINEPROPERTY Though the establishment of the rule, con- cerning the stabilit ...

BOOK III PART II reap from his enjoyment of any particular goods, beyond what would result from the pos- session of them by any ...

BOOK III PART II decisions, never regards the fitness or unfitness of objects to particular persons, but conducts herself by mor ...

BOOK III PART II of mutual protection and assistance. I also sup- pose, that they are endowed with such sagacity as immediately ...

BOOK III PART II It is evident, then, that their first difficulty, in this situation, after the general convention for the estab ...

BOOK III PART II the most unwilling to part with; but can easily live without possessions, which we never have enjoyed, and are ...

BOOK III PART II It is a quality, which I have already observed in human nature, that when two objects appear in a close relatio ...

BOOK III PART II relation, and even an absurd one, in order to compleat any union, it will easily be imagined, that if there be ...

BOOK III PART II They present themselves at the same time to the conception; and instead of requiring any new reason for their c ...

BOOK III PART II relation that resembles it. For this also has its influence. If it be natural to conjoin all sorts of relations ...

BOOK III PART II beginning with Occupation. The possession of all external goods is changeable and uncertain; which is one of th ...

BOOK III PART II colour of reason for assigning property to any succeeding possession.^16 There remains nothing, but to determin ...

BOOK III PART II thing, not only when we immediately touch it, but also when we are so situated with re- spect to it, as to have ...

BOOK III PART II to be in our possession, if it be impossible for him to escape. But what do we mean by impos- sible? How do we ...

BOOK III PART II Here then it appears, that a certain and in- fallible power of enjoyment, without touch or some other sensible ...

BOOK III PART II erty; according to that maxim,that even a whole continent belongs to the nation, which first discov- ered it. I ...

BOOK III PART II feigned, we may consider the following one, which is to be met with In almost every writer, that has treated of ...