44 MORAL PHILOSOPHY. 



Pain and Pleasure. 



Two names for one feeling, which our internal 

 agony attempts to vary in the sound, although the 

 sensation of the last escapes our most strenuous 

 efforts to detain it. 



Man is the only animal observed to take cogniz- 

 ance of another's pain. 



A moderate pain, upon which the attention may 

 fasten and spend itself, is to many a refreshment, and 

 a moderate agitation of mind always is. 



Moral Action. 



Every deviation from moral action is infallibly at-, 

 tended by physical evils, which are destructive both 

 of body and mind, vice having no advantage over 

 virtue even with respect to this world's happiness. 



Judging from experience, it appears probable a re- 

 tribution takes place in this world as well as in the 

 next. 



Evil. 



Man in the universe being only a part of a great 

 system, fancies there is evil, but if he were permitted 

 to survey the whole, would discover perfection where 

 he imagined error. To this the common objection is, 

 that what seems evil might have been avoided. 



Responsibility. 



The foundation of all moral feeling and conduct is 

 a responsibility in a man's own person for the conse- 

 quences of his conduct. 



Scott, at the rate of ten miles per hour, is no happier than Roderic 

 Random" and Strap were in a heavy waggon. The solitary argu- 

 ment in favour of knowledge is a political, not a moral one ; viz. 

 that if we stagnate in knowledge while other nations advance, we 

 must ultimately succumb, so that the least evil is to be wise and 

 miserable. 



