The good done by one man is done to some others; and the recipients are moved by their self-love to encourage beneficence.

The regard to our own benefactor makes all benefactors interesting.
III .-- He says little directly bearing on the constituents of Human Happiness; but that little is all in favour of simplicity of life and cheap pleasures.

He does not reflect that the pleasures singled out by him are far from cheap; 'agreeable conversation, society, study, health, and the beauties of nature,' although not demanding extraordinary wealth, cannot be secured without a larger share of worldly means than has ever fallen to the mass of men in any community.
IV .-- As to the substance of the Moral Code, he makes no innovations.

He talks somewhat more lightly of the evils of Unchastity than is customary; but regards the prevailing restraints as borne out by Utility.
The inducements to virtue are, in his view, our humane sentiments, on the one hand, and our self-love, or prudence, on the other; the two classes of motives conspiring to promote both our own good and the good of mankind.
V .-- The connexion of Ethics with Politics is not specially brought out.
The political virtues are moral virtues.

He does not dwell upon the sanctions of morality, so as to distinguish the legal sanction from the popular sanction.