BOOK III PART I
which has never yet been explained. In such a
manner of fighting in the dark, a man loses his
blows in the air, and often places them where
the enemy is not present.
I must, therefore, on this occasion, rest con-
tented with requiring the two following con-
ditions of any one that would undertake to
clear up this system. First, As moral good and
evil belong only to the actions of the mind,
and are derived from our situation with regard
to external objects, the relations, from which
these moral distinctions arise, must lie only be-
twixt internal actions, and external objects, and
must not be applicable either to internal ac-
tions, compared among themselves, or to exter-
nal objects, when placed in opposition to other
external objects. For as morality is supposed to
attend certain relations, if these relations coued