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Moral Science; A Compendium of Ethics

PART II
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A part of our blame of UNCHASTITY in a woman is attached to its imprudence with reference to the opinion regarding it.

STRENGTH OF MIND being to resist present care, and to maintain the search of distant profit and enjoyment, is another quality of great value to the possessor.

The distinction between the _Fool_ and the _Wise_ man illustrates the same position.

In our approbation of all such qualities, it is evident that the happiness and misery of others are not indifferent spectacles to us: the one, like sunshine, or the prospect of well-cultivated plains, imparts joy and satisfaction; the other, like a lowering cloud or a barren landscape, throws a damp over the spirits.
He next considers the influence of bodily endowments and the goods of fortune as bearing upon the general question.
Even in animals, one great source of _beauty_ is the suitability of their structure to their manner of life.

In times when bodily strength in men was more essential to a warrior than now, it was held in so much more esteem.


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