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The various systems that have been formed concerning
the standard of right & wrong, may all be reduced to the principle
of sympathy & antipathy. One account may serve
for all of them. They consist all of them in so many contrivances
for avoiding the obligation of appealing to any
external standard, and for prevaling upon the reader
to accept of the author's sentiment or opinion as a reason
for itself. The phrases different, but the principle the
same.*
* It is curious enough to observe the variety of inventions men
have hit upon, and the variety of phrases they have brought
forward, in order to conceal from the world, and , if possible,
from themselves this very general & therefore very pardonable
self-efficiency.
1. One man says,
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