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the nature of evil ; as without this, virtue lies exposed and 

 unguarded. And further, a good and just man cannot cor 

 rect and amend the vicious and the wicked, unless he has first 

 searched into all the depths ant? dungeons of wickedness ; for 

 men of a corrupt and depraved judgment ever suppose that 

 honesty proceeds from ignorance, or a certain simplicity 

 of manners, and is rooted only in a belief of our tutors, 

 instructors, books, moral precepts, and vulgar discourse, 

 whence unless they plainly perceive that their perverse 

 opinions, their corrupt and distorted principles, are thor 

 oughly known to those who exhort and admonish them as 

 well as to themselves they despise all wholesome advice; 

 according to that admirable saying of Solomon, &quot;A fool 

 receives not the words of the wise, unless thou speakest 

 the very things that are in his heart.&quot; 14 And this part of 

 morality, concerning cautions and respective vice, we set 

 down as wanting, under the name of sober satire, or the 

 insides of things. 



To the doctrine of respective duties belong also the 

 mutual duties between husband and wife, parent and child, 

 master and servant, as also the laws of friendship, gratitude, 

 and the civil obligations of fraternities, colleges, neighbor 

 hoods, and the like, always understanding that these things 

 are to be treated, not as parts of civil society, in which view 

 they belong to politics, but so far as the minds of particulars 

 ought to be instructed and disposed to preserve these bonds 

 of society. 



The doctrine of the good of communion, as well as of 

 self -good, treats good not only simply, but comparatively, 

 and thus regards the balancing of duty between man and 

 man, case and case, private and public, present and future, 

 etc. as we may observe in the cruel conduct of Lucius 

 Brutus to his own sons, which by the generality was ex 

 tolled to the skies; yet another said, 



&quot;Infelix, utcunque ferent ea facta minores.&quot; 15 

 14 Prov. xviii. 2. 15 Yirg. &n. vi. 823. 



