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Moral Science; A Compendium of Ethics

PART II
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(3) The kind affections themselves, and the more as they are fixed rather than passionate, and extensive rather than narrow; highest of all in the form of universal good-will to all.

(4) The disposition to desire and love moral excellence, whether observed in ourselves or others--in short, true piety towards God.

He goes on to give a similar scale of moral turpitude.

Again, putting aside the indifferent qualities, and also those that merely make people despicable and prove them insensible, he cites--( 1) the gratification of a narrow kind of affection when the public good might have been served.

(2) Acts detrimental to the public, done under fear of personal ill, or great temptation.


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