Instance in keeping compacts. Virtue generally approved, not because innate, but because profitable. Men's actions convince us that the rule of virtue is not their internal principle. Conscience no proof of any innate moral rule. Instances of enormities practised without remorse.
Men have contrary practical principles.
Whole nations reject several moral rules. The generally allowed breach of a rule, proof that it is not innate. If men can be ignorant of what is innate, certainty is not described by innate principles. Those who maintain innate practical principles tell us not what they are. Lord Herbert's innate principles examined.