PART I
OFVIRTUE ANDVICE INGENERAL FROM
REASON
SECTIONI. MORALDISTINCTIONS NOT
DERIVED FROMREASON
There is an inconvenience which attends all
abstruse reasoning that it may silence, with-
out convincing an antagonist, and requires the
same intense study to make us sensible of its
force, that was at first requisite for its inven-
tion. When we leave our closet, and engage in
the common affairs of life, its conclusions seem
to vanish, like the phantoms of the night on
the appearance of the morning; and it is diffi-
cult for us to retain even that conviction, which