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MS Ethics. Vol. II.

be certain facts, and such it must be the only conclusion and for such if hey proceeded on the
principle of utility, would all along be the object of inquiry: the only
object at least that can will give room to afford imagine a disagreement.

They would Men there are who think the cause of truth in this behalf betrayed by exposing
it to doubt, by making it the object of enquiry – I ask them in return Let them say
whether they think an enquiry of this calm and unimpassioned kind, could
possibly end in the justification of murder, robbery, theft, devastation, malicious
mischief, perjury, or any of those crimes which are generally dreaded as mortal
to the peace of society? If not, then either the offence practice actions in question is are not of
the same malignant nature, in which case there is no reason why it should
be treated as if it were, or if it is such will they are of the same malignant nature the enquiry show it will
show them to be so.

Though it should be sentiment and nothing else but
sentiment that leads men to perform certain actions which
we call virtuous, it must be something else than sentiment
that should lead a person instructed in all the circumstances of the case,
i.e. in the whole sum of its influence on pains and pleasures to approve
of it.

Disappointment of knowledge, men look for screens to hide their
ignorance.

The moral sense is not pretended to be any thing more than a
propensity in a man, 1st. to do a certain action – 2d. to approve
of it.

But the same two propositions may be seen in some (with respect to)
towards an many actions which the partizans of the moral sense are as ready
to condemn as any one else. MS Ethics Vol. III. p.25.

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