He makes few attempts to analyze the emotional and active part of our nature.
III .-- His Summum Bonum is stated generally as the procuring of Pleasure and the avoiding of Pain.
IV .-- He has no peculiar views on the Moral Code, or on the enforcements of Morality.
V .-- The connexion of Ethics with Politics is, in him, the assimilating of Morality to Law.
VI .-- With reference to Theology, he considers that, by the exercise of the Reason, we may discover the existence and attributes of God, and our duties to him; his ascertained will is the highest moral rule, the true touchstone of Moral Rectitude.
JOSEPH BUTLER.

[1692-1752.] Butler's Ethical System may be found--First, in a short Dissertation on Virtue, appended to the Analogy; secondly, and chiefly, in his first three Sermons, entitled 'Human Nature;' thirdly, in other Sermons, as (V.) on Compassion, and (XL) on Benevolence.

Various illustrations of Ethical doctrine are interspersed through the Analogy, as in Part I., Chap.

2, entitled 'the government of God by rewards and punishments.' The Dissertation on Virtue is intended to vindicate, in man, the existence of a moral nature, apart from both Prudence and Benevolence.
A moral government supposes a moral nature in man, or a power of distinguishing right from wrong.

All men and all systems agree as to the fact of moral perceptions.
As characteristics of these moral perceptions, it is to be noted--First, they refer to voluntary actions.