Reflection or Conscience steps in to protect the interests that these would lead us to sacrifice.

Surely, therefore, this would be enough to constitute superiority.

Any other passion taking the lead is a case of usurpation.
We can hardly form a notion of Conscience without this idea of superiority.

Had it might, as it has right, it would govern the world.
Were there no such supremacy, all actions would be on an equal footing.
Impiety, profaneness, and blasphemy would be as suitable as reverence; parricide would justify itself by the right of the strongest.
Hence human nature is made up of a number of propensities in union with this ruling principle; and as, in civil government, the constitution is infringed by strength prevailing over authority, so the nature of man is violated when the lower faculties triumph over conscience.

Man has a rule of right within, if he will honestly attend to it.