Discourses on All the Principal Branches of Natural Religion and Social Virtue, Part 2
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: July 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 444
ISBN-13: 9780766168848
Subjects: Philosophy of religion; Religious; Philosophy
First sentence: I INTEND, in this chapter, to attempt a diftinct and particular explanation of the true ground of all focial morality-A great and moft concerning fubject, and proper to be underftood, in fome meafure, by all; becaufe a juft difcharge of thefe mutual focial obligations, which, in every age of the world, have been held and proclaimed as facred, is abfolutely neceffary to perfonal integrity, to the peace and order of families, the ftrength of civil communities, the dignity, improvement, and welfare of mankind.