[A very questionable analysis.] So there are mental passions, as fame, power, vengeance, that urge us to act, in the first instance; and when the end is attained, the pleasure follows.
Now, as vengeance may be so pursued as to make us neglect ease, interest, and safety, why may we not allow to humanity and friendship the same privileges?
[This is Butler, improved in the statement.] Appendix III.

gives some farther considerations with regard to JUSTICE.
The point of the discussion is to show that Justice differs from Generosity or Beneficence in a regard to distant consequences, and to General Rules.

The theme is handled in the author's usual happy style, but contains nothing special to him.

He omits to state what is also a prime attribute of Justice, its being indispensable to the very existence of society, which cannot be said of generosity apart from its contributing to justice.
Appendix IV.

is on some VERBAL DISPUTES.