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The Principles of Moral Philosophy u part i u Human Nature and the ways of God to man vindicated, by delineating the general laws to which the principal phenomena in the human system are reducible, and shewing them to be wise and good. ——— Nam sic habetote nullo in genere disputandi magis honeste patefieri, quid sit homini tributum natura, quantamvim rerum optimarum mens humana contineat; cujus muneris colendi , efficiendique causa nati, & in lucem editi simus, quae sit conjunctio hominum, quae naturalis societas inter ipsos. His enim explicatis fons legum & juris inveniri potest. M. T. Cicero de leg. l. 1.19 Remember man, the universal cause, Acts not by partial but by gen’ral laws; And makes what happiness we justly call, Subsist, not in the good of one, but all. There’s not a blessing individuals find, But some way leans and hearken to the kind. Essay on man, Ep. 4.20 19. Cicero, De legibus, I.v.16: “. . . for you must understand that in no other kind of discussion can one bring out so clearly what nature’s gifts to man are,whatawealth of most excellent possessions the human mind enjoys, what the purpose is, to strive after and accomplish which we have been born and placed in this world, what it is that unites men, and what natural fellowship there is among them. For it is only after all these things have been made clear that the origin of law and justice can be discovered .” Cicero, De re publica, De legibus, trans. Clinton Walker Keyes, Loeb Classical Library (London: Heinemann; New York: Putnam, 1928). 20. Pope, Essay on Man, IV.35–40. 19 ...

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