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- From the apparent usefulness of the social virtues, it has readily been inferred by sceptics, both ancient and modern, that all moral distinctions arise from…
- But, historians, and even common sense, may inform us, that, however specious these ideas of perfect equality may seem, they are really, at bottom, impracticable;…
- the senses alone are not implicitly to be depended on. We must correct their evidence by reason, and by considerations, derived from the nature of…
- Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian, were not nature too strong for it.
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