A General Treatise of Morality, Form'd Upon the Principles of Natural Reason Only; With a Preface in Answer to Two Essays Lately Published in the Fa - Couverture souple
Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1724 edition. Excerpt: ... and the Relation wherein it stands to other Bodies, we must take a particular and close Survey of it. And thus it is, if we would i „.. fix fix theMind upon any intellectual Object, we must consider it with Attention, we must silence the Senses, Imagination and Passions; and observe, if we would have a clear Idea of it, what it really is in itself, and how it differs from other Objects.t.. XIX, The Mind is not only fatigued with a continual Attention so abstract Truths, and obliged,both for its Relief,and other Reasons above mentioned, to divert the Thoughts upon other Subjects; but we fee such Truths, at a Distance, or, as having, at present, no immediate or necessary Relation to us or to our Interests: Whereas, corporeal Objects are continually at hand, offering themselves to us, and promising aclual Delight and Satisfaction. Besides, when the L x Mind Mind of Man would really apply itself, with Ardour, to discover any Truth and is agreeably employed in its Inquiry, the least Thing in the World has Force sufficient to break in upon him, and to interrupt hisGogitations. Sometimes, an accidental Thought, whereof he cannot trace the Origin, which gives him some pleasing or painful Sentiment, quite disturbs the Order of his Ideas; and carries him off, from his former Speculations, into a Region altogether different; and perhaps into some new and strange World of his own forming. XX. The Truths of Morality are, certainly, discoverable by the Mind, and agreeable to it; but they are not always discovered without Attention and Pain. And since the Soul naturallv loves PleaPleasure, and always tastes actual Pleasure, when the Senses are gratified; 'tis not without Violence and Difficulty, that she can disengage herself in such a Manner...
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