...habitual virtue. By the definition of virtue, placed at the beginning of this chapter, it appears, that the good of mankind is the subject, the will of God the rule, and everlasting happiness the motive and end, of all virtue. Yet, in fact, a man shall perform many an act of virtue, without having either...

...despair. Paley defines very erroneously, when he calls virtue the doing good to mankind, ' in obedience to the will of ' God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness.' There is, on the contrary, as it were, ' A smooth, short space of yellow sand, Between it and the greener...

...him in few and explicit words. " Virtue,'1 says Paley, "is the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God and for the sake of everlasting happiness !" The motive then from which all duty or virtue must proceed is the hope of everlasting happiness....

...learning, has given us this definition of virtue ; — " Virtue is the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness." For the sake of evei'lasting happiness ! It is then, for the sake of happiness, — for its tendency...

...by him in few and explicit words. " Virtue," says Paley, " is the doinggood to mankind, in obedience to the will of God and FOR THE SAKE of everlasting happiness .'" The motive then from which all duty or virtue must proceed is the hope of everlasting happiness....

...system, under a modified form. He makes virtue consist in " the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness. "J According to this doctrine, "the will of God is our rule, but private happiness our motive," which...

...writer's theory of obligation. Paley's definition of virtue is 'the doing 'good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the ' sake of everlasting happiness. According to which definition,' adds Paley, ' the good of mankind is the subject, the will of God ' the rule, and everlasting happiness...

...wise regard to selfinterest. Paley's definition is, that it is ' doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness." This final definition uems to comprehend all the preceding; for if the advocates of the other replications...

...God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness. The good of mankind, therefore, is the subject—the will of God, the rule —and everlasting happiness, the motive of human virtue. The will of God, he subsequently goes on to show, is made known to us partly by revelation, and partly...

...Corporal Trim's hat " plump upon the ground :" — " Virtue is the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God and for the sake of everlasting happiness." Let this definition be a proposition or bone of contention, if you will ; it is a bone on which there...