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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ON PLEASURES AND PAINS. H. You have given an entirely new direction to our thoughts. We not only see that our judgments upon conduct which ought to be the basis of our judgments upon laws and morals, must be formed independently of religion, but we are beginning to suspect that correct notions concerning religion are impossible till some progress has been made in studying and understanding laws and morals. To study laws and morals is to study the distinctions between good and bad in human conduct?to learn how man ought to behave to his fellows, what dispositions the better and wiser portion of mankind ought to cultivate and desire in themselves and to encourage in others, and what particular kinds of conduct it would be expedient to enforce or to prevent by government authority. Not to have made considerable progress in the knowledge involved in all this is to have but a faint conception of goodness and wisdom. If we are borne out in these views, it seems to follow that a just appreciation of religion? of the perfect goodness and wisdom of God, is destined to be the last triumph of civilization, instead of coming to man at his first escape from barbarism. A race of ignorant savages may bow down before a stock or a stone, or, if a little more advanced, may tremble before some imaginary monster whom they try to propitiate with fulsome flattery and praise. But they cannot love and adore that of which they have no adequate conception?infinite goodness and wisdom united to omnipotence. P. If you can preserve this state of mind, you will besaved from many distractions and perplexities while pursuing the inquiries upon which you have entered. We have had enough of these distractions and perplexities, and, I may add, impediments also, in those parts of the earth which teem the most ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217528160 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217528163 |
| Weight | 0.67 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.46 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 202 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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