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Moral Science; A Compendium of Ethics

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brings forward the QUALITIES IMMEDIATELY AGREEABLE TO OTHERS.

These are GOOD MANNERS or POLITENESS; the WIT or INGENUITY that enlivens social intercourse; MODESTY, as opposed to impudence, arrogance, and vanity; CLEANLINESS, and GRACEFUL MANNER; all which are obviously valued for the pleasures they communicate to people generally.

Section IX.

is the CONCLUSION.

Whatever may have been maintained in systems of philosophy, he contends that in common life the habitual motives of panegyric or censure are of the kind described by him.


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