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is urged to act and to abstain. And as these 

 parts of the constitution of man are clearly in- 

 tended, as we conceive, to impel him in his 

 appointed path ; so we conceive that they are 

 no less clearly the work of the same great 

 Artificer who created the heart, the eye, the 

 hand, the tongue, and that elemental world in 

 which, by means of these instruments, man 

 pursues the objects of his appetites, desires, and 

 affections. 



5. But if the Creator of the world be also the 

 author of our intellectual powers, of our feeling 

 for the beautiful and the sublime, of our social 

 tendencies, and of our natural desires and af- 

 fections, we shall find it impossible not to ascribe 

 also to Him the higher directive attributes of our 

 nature, the conscience and the religious feeling, 

 the reference of our actions to the rule of duty 

 and to the will of God. 



It would not suit the plan of the present treatise 

 to enter into any detailed analysis of the con- 

 nexion of these various portions of our moral 

 constitution. But we may observe that the 

 existence and universality of the conception of 

 duty and right cannot be doubted, however men 

 may differ as to its original or derivative nature. 

 All men are perpetually led to form judgments 

 concerning actions, and emotions which lead to 

 action, as right or wrong ; as what they ought or 

 ought not to do or feel. There is a faculty which 

 approves and disapproves, acquits or condemns 



