...in which the suhIect of morals may he treated. One hegins hy enquiring into the ahstract relatious of things; the other from a matter of fact, namely what the particular nature of man is. ... They hoth lead us to the same thing. . . . The first seems the most direct, formal proof, and in...

...that he will be following a distinctive method to argue for this answer to the question. As he says: "There are two ways in which the subject of morals...from inquiring into the abstract relations of things; i. References to the Fifteen Sermons are to sermon and paragraph number, according to The Works of...

...There are two ways," says he, "in which the subject of morals may be treated. One besrins from inquiry into the abstract relations of things — the other,...what the particular nature of man is, its several parls.tlieir economy or constitution ; from whence it proceeds to determine what course of life it...