PRINCIPLE S

OF

MORAL AND POLITICAL SCIENCE.

RETROSPECT of LECTURES delivered in the COLLEGE
of EDINBURGH.

BY ADAM FERGUSON, L. L.D & F.R. S. E.

Huc enim pertinet, animal hoc providum, fagax, multiplex, acutum, memor, plenum rationis et confilii,
quem vocamus hominem, præclara quadam conditione generatum effe a
fummo Deo. CIC, DE LEGG. Cap. VII.

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SECT. VII. Of the actual measures and fources of good and evil in human life.

SECT. VIII. Of the same subject continued.

CHA P. II.

Of the Fundamental Law of Morality, its immediate Applications

and Sanctions.

SECT. I. Of the law, or firft principle of estimation in the character of man.

SECT. II. Of the first and more general application of moral law.

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