BOOK III PART I
and contemplation. This decision is very com-
modious; because it reduces us to this simple
question, Why any action or sentiment upon
the general view or survey, gives a certain sat-
isfaction or uneasiness, in order to shew the
origin of its moral rectitude or depravity, with-
out looking for any incomprehensible relations
and qualities, which never did exist in nature,
nor even in our imagination, by any clear and
distinct conception. I flatter myself I have ex-
ecuted a great part of my present design by a
state of the question, which appears to me so
free from ambiguity and obscurity.