RETROSPECT of LECTURES delivered in the COLLEGE

of EDINBURGH.

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

Huc enim pertinet, animal hoc providum, fagax, multiplex, acutum, memor, plenum rationis et consilii, quem vocamus hominem, præclara quadam conditione generatum esse a

summo Deo. Cic. DE LEGG. Cap. VII.

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Sect. I. INTRODUCTION.

Sect. II. Of pleasure and pain.

Sect. III. Of beauty and deformity, excellence and defect.

Sect. IV. Of virtue and vice.

Sect. V. Of prosperity and adversity, or the gifts of fortune.

Sect. VI. Of happiness and misery.

Sect. VII. Of the actual measures and sources of good and evil in human life.

Sect. VIII. Of the same subject continued.

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Of the Fundamental Law of Morality, its immediate Applications

and Sanctions.

Sect. I. Of the law, or first principle of estimation in the characier of man.

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

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S.CT. II!. Of the daculty which has arisen in accounting for moral approbation. P.116

SECT. IV. Of the difficulty of reconciling the different judgements of men re-

lating to the morality of external actions.

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Sect. V. Of the fundamental rules of morality relating to external actions. 149

Sect. VI. Of the same fubject continued.

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SECT. VII. Of the unequal degrees of merit and demerit in external actions. 159

SECT. VIII. Of the obligations and sanctions of moral law.

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Of Jurisprudence, or Compulsory Law. Part I.

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Sect. I. Of the principle of compulsory law.

Sect. II. Of the term right in its most general acceptation.

Sect. III. Of the law of defence in general.

Sect. IV. Of the general titles under which the rights of man may be classed.

SicT. V, Of rights original.

Sect. VI. Of rights adventitious.

Sect. VII. Of the different sources of adventitious rights.

Sect. VIII. Of occupancy and the species of right that may result from it.

Sect. IX. Of labour and the species of right that may result from it.

Sect. X. Of contract, or the principle of conventional obligation.

Sect. XI. Of the laws of convention, derived from the foregoing principle.

Suct. XII. Of the specific obligations and rights that result from contract.

SECT. XIII. Of forfeiture and the species of right which results from it.

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SECT. I. Of the means that may be opposed to injustice in

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Sect. II. Of the law of defence, in the case of single persons, strangers, and un-

connected.

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Sect. II!. Of the case of fellow citizens.

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SECT. IV. Of the case of nations.

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SECT. V. Of the same subject continued.

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