A Treatise of Human Nature

BOOK III PART II rise to a new set of rules, which we call the laws of nations. Under this head we may com- prize the sacredness ...

BOOK III PART II Where promises are not observed, there can be no leagues nor alliances. The advantages, therefore, of peace, co ...

BOOK III PART II advantage from the execution of them; and the prospect of such advantage for the future must engage them to per ...

BOOK III PART II and imposes an obligation to observe those rules, which we call the laws of justice. This obligation of interes ...

BOOK III PART II ever to subsist. Since, therefore, the natural obligation to justice, among different states, is not so strong ...

BOOK III PART II grees of our duty, than the most subtile philos- ophy, which was ever yet invented. And this may serve as a con ...

BOOK III PART II SECTIONXII. OFCHASTITY ANDMODESTY If any difficulty attend this system concern- ing the laws of nature and nati ...

BOOK III PART II no foundation in nature for all that exterior modesty, which we require in the expressions, and dress, and beha ...

BOOK III PART II to which it subjects them, they must believe, that the children are their own, and that their natural instinct ...

BOOK III PART II maintenance and education of their children, by the persuasion that they are really their own; and therefore it ...

BOOK III PART II court of judicature. In order, therefore, to im- pose a due restraint on the female sex, we must attach a pecul ...

BOOK III PART II fore, that, beside the infamy attending such li- cences, there should be some preceding back- wardness or dread ...

BOOK III PART II other kind of injustice, when it is evident they are more excusable, upon account of the great- ness of the tem ...

BOOK III PART II the fair sex in their infancy. And when a gen- eral rule of this kind is once established, men are apt to exten ...

BOOK III PART II not the same with regard to the different ages of women, for this reason, though men know, that these notions a ...

BOOK III PART II the law of nations do to those of the law of na- ture. It is contrary to the interest of civil society, that me ...

PART III OF THEOTHERVIRTUES ANDVICES SECTIONI. OF THEORIGIN OF THE NATURALVIRTUES ANDVICES We come now to the examination of suc ...

BOOK III PART III or volition. The most immediate effects of plea- sure and pain are the propense and averse mo- tions of the mi ...

BOOK III PART III sentiments of pain and pleasure, and that whatever mental quality in ourselves or oth- ers gives us a satisfac ...

BOOK III PART III If any action be either virtuous or vicious, it is only as a sign of some quality or character. It must depend ...