...no advantage over virtue, even witi respect to this world's happiness. CHAPTER VII. VIRTUE. VIRTUE is " the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the...motive of human virtue. Virtue has been divided by some into benevolence, prudence, fortitude, and temperance. Benevolence proposes good ends ; " prudence...

...world's happiness. CHAPTER VXX. VIETtTE. is " the doing good to mankind, in obedience to tht '•• will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness."...; the " will of God " the rule ; and " everlasting happiuess" the motive[of human virtue. Virtue has been divided by some into benevolence, prudence,...

...ethics, however false and dangerous I consider his leading doctrines to be. Virtue, he defines to be, " the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will...of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness." * The last part of the definition is the most important part of the whole ; for, the knowledge of this...

...matter." — Locke's Works, vol xp 306. t See the Author's Moral Philosophy, vol. i. chap. 7. Virtue is the doing good to. mankind, in obedience to the...of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness. In June, 1766, Paley was elected Fellow of Christ's College; and tli received the reward long due to...

...strangely absurd (in every view) definition of virtue, given in Gay's Preliminary Dissertations. 'Virtue " [Ż ^`+ : ^ v" VF D Eb bp 0 }D x `t T _) & ;a ) ԯ m 53H d ȹ T ] id % i P This combines the two opposite faults of being at once deficient and redundant ; nnd, what is still...

...Smith refers it to the principle of Sympathy. Paley, who read Edwards with care, defines Virtue to be " The Doing Good to mankind in obedience to the Will...of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness." Cumberland, in his Laws of Nature, justly regards it as consisting in the love of God, and of our fellowcreatures...

...themselves ; in short, we exhort them, according to a celebrated definition of moral virtue, " to do good, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness."* Now this, upon our present hypothesis, is practical preaching. Will it then issue in the practice of...

...dangerous I consider his leading doctrines to be. Virtue he defines to be the doing good to mankind iu obedience to the will of God and for the sake of everlasting happiness. The last part of the definition is the most important part of the whole ; for the knowledge of this...

...but is also an adherent of the selfish system, under a modified form. He makes virtue consist in " the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will...the sake of everlasting happiness \\." According to this doctrine, " the will of God is our rule, but private happiness our motive," which is 'just selfishness...

...cold indifference. ' Virtue,' as Mr Paley, in the words of the bishop of Carlisle, § defines it, ' is the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the...of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness. The " good of mankind," therefore, is the subject, the " will of God " the rule, and " everlasting...