A Treatise of Human Nature

BOOK III PART II object, but only to cause its property. Now it is evident, this external relation causes nothing in external ob ...

BOOK III PART II not because nature has annexed a certain senti- ment of pleasure to such a conduct, with regard to the property ...

BOOK III PART II First, If nature had given us a pleasure of this kind, it would have been as evident and dis- cernible as on ev ...

BOOK III PART II artifice and contrivance. They are too numer- ous to have proceeded from nature: They are changeable by human l ...

BOOK III PART II trary to that of another, these several interested passions are obliged to adjust themselves after such a manne ...

BOOK III PART II obligations, and property, admit of no such in- sensible gradation, but that a man either has a full and perfec ...

BOOK III PART II and that a man entirely acquires the property of any object by occupation, or the consent of the proprietor; an ...

BOOK III PART II imperfect And vice versa, if the property ad- mit of no such variations, they must also be in- compatible with ...

BOOK III PART II ple. An object must either be in the possession of one person or another. An action must ei- ther be performed ...

BOOK III PART II and divide the difference betwixt the parties. Civil judges, who have not this liberty, but are obliged to give ...

BOOK III PART II tion is a particular individual event, it must proceed from particular principles, and from our immediate situa ...

BOOK III PART II same variations, which are natural to the pas- sion. Here are two persons, who dispute for an estate; of whom o ...

BOOK III PART II ity, and coued never be a violation of prop- erty. Were men, therefore, to take the liberty of acting with rega ...

BOOK III PART II These rules, then, are artificially invented for a certain purpose, and are contrary to the com- mon principles ...

BOOK III PART II what they will, they must accommodate them- selves to circumstances, and must admit of all the variations, whic ...

BOOK III PART II to the peace of society, and an uneasiness from such as are contrary to it. It is the voluntary convention and ...

BOOK III PART II SECTIONVII. OF THEORIGIN OF GOVERNMENT Nothing is more certain, than that men are, in a great measure, governed ...

BOOK III PART II it palpable and evident, even to the most rude and uncultivated of human race; and it is al- most impossible fo ...

BOOK III PART II value. What strikes upon them with a strong and lively idea commonly prevails above what lies in a more obscure ...

BOOK III PART II particular why they prefer any trivial advan- tage, that is present, to the maintenance of or- der in society, ...