...popular Dr. Paley has adopted, to some extent, the selfish system. According to him, "Virtue consists in the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will...of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness." The will of God is here alleged to be our rule, but private happiness our motive. The science of Phrenology...

...popular Dr. Paley has adopted, to some extent, the selfish system. According to him, "Virtue consists in the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will...of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness." The will of God is here alleged to be our rule, but private happiness our motive. The, science of Phrenology...

...remote effects in time, but the conse. LEcT . vr . quences in eternity; for his very definition of virtue is —" the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, for the sake of everlasting happiness"* — But it is not the impossibility merely of rightly applying...

...honour and dignity of man. It would be easy, however, to show, that doing good because it is agreeable to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness,— and the avoiding of evil because it is contrary to the Divine will, and productive of eternal misery,—...

...the calm results of a dispassionate calculation. Such a system has no fitness for man's nature. 4>. Virtue is the doing good to mankind, in obedience...of God and for the sake of everlasting happiness. This is the definition adopted by Paley ; and it is, I think, open to many grave objections. In the...

...happiness of many animals, which, like oysters, possess no visible means of enjoyment. CHAP. VII. VIRTUE. Virtue is the doing good to mankind in obedience to...of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness. In this definition. the " good of mankind" is the subject; the " will of God," the rule ; and "everlasting...

...vice has no advantage over virtue, even with respect to this world's happiness. CHAPTER VII. VIRTUE. VIRTUE is " the doing good to mankind, in obedience...of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness." According to which definition, " the good of mankind," is the subject; the " will of God," the rule...

...the calm results of a dispassionate calculation. Such a system has no fitness for man's nature. 4. Virtue is the doing good to mankind, in obedience...of God and for the sake of everlasting happiness. This is the definition adopted by Paley ; and it is, I think, open to many grave objections. In the...

...acknowledged to be liable to considerable objections. He commences with the proposition that virtue is doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness. The good of mankind, therefore, is the object, the will of God the rule, and everlasting happiness...

...Virtue, says Paley, comprehends, benevolence, prudence, fortitude, and temperance; and is the doing of good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of his favour, and of everlasting happiness. Here—the good of mankind is me object; the will of God,...