A Treatise of Human Nature

BOOK III PART II and also affords me a new reason for any breach of equity, by shewing me, that I should be the cully of my inte ...

BOOK III PART II necessity, which would oblige us to such a method of acting. But here it is observable, that this infirmity of ...

BOOK III PART II time it will be more contiguous or remote; nor does any difference in that particular make a difference in my p ...

BOOK III PART II perienced how ineffectual all these are, I may embrace with pleasure any other expedient, by which I may impose ...

BOOK III PART II mankind, it can only take place with respect to a few, whom we thus immediately interest in the execution of ju ...

BOOK III PART II particular persons, and its violation their more remote. These persons, then, are not only in- duced to observe ...

BOOK III PART II manner as that above-mentioned. The same persons, who execute the laws of justice, will also decide all controv ...

BOOK III PART II mon end or purpose. There is no quality in human nature, which causes more fatal errors in our conduct, than th ...

BOOK III PART II ers. Political society easily remedies both these inconveniences. Magistrates find an immedi- ate interest in t ...

BOOK III PART II SECTIONVIII. ON THESOURCE OF ALLEGIANCE Though government be an invention very advantageous, and even in some c ...

BOOK III PART II other of his hut, or to steal his bow, as being already provided of the same advantages; and as to any superior ...

BOOK III PART II exposed singly against one whose commerce is advantageous to them, and without whose society it is impossible t ...

BOOK III PART II themselves without any established govern- ment and never pay submission to any of their fellows, except in tim ...

BOOK III PART II the true mothers of cities; and as war can- not be administered, by reason of the sudden- ness of every exigenc ...

BOOK III PART II elapse before these can encrease to such a de- gree, as to disturb men in the enjoyment of peace and concord. B ...

BOOK III PART II ceived the necessity of government to main- tain peace, and execute justice, they would nat- urally assemble to ...

BOOK III PART II unknown to the laws of nature. Men, there- fore, are bound to obey their magistrates, only because they promise ...

BOOK III PART II assert justice to be a natural virtue, and an- tecedent to human conventions, to resolve all civil allegiance i ...

BOOK III PART II plainly artificial. But being once undeceived in this particular, and having found that natural, as well as civ ...

BOOK III PART II We have already shewn, that men invented the three fundamental laws of nature, when they observed the necessity ...