...the calm results of a dispassionate calculation. Such a system has no fitness for man's nature. 4. Virtue is the doing good to mankind, in obedience...of God and for the sake of everlasting happiness. This is the definition adopted by Paley; and it is, I think, open to many grave. objections. In the...

...popular Dr. Paley has adopted, to some extent, the selfish system. According to him, "Virtue consists in the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will...of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness." The will of God is here alleged to be our rule, but private happiness our motive. The, science of Phrenology...

...remote effects in time, but the conse. LEcT . vr . quences in eternity; for his very definition of virtue is —" the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, for the sake of everlasting happiness"* — But it is not the impossibility merely of rightly applying...

...honour and dignity of man. It would be easy, however, to show, that doing good because it is agreeable to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness, — and the avoiding of evil because it is contrary to the Divine will, and productive of eternal misery,...

...in civil society ; 2. That vice has no advantage over virtue, even in this world. CHAP. VII. VIRTUE. Virtue is the doing good to mankind in obedience to...of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness. In this definition. the " good of mankind" is the subject ; the " will of God," the rule ; and "everlasting...

...Virtue, says Paley, comprehends- benevolence, pnidence, fortitude, and temperance ; and is the doing of good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of his favour, and of everlasting happiness. Here — the good of mankind is {ne object ; the will of...

...definition of Virtue, alone is an unanswerable illustration of the debasing vulgarity of his cude. "Virtue is the doing good to mankind, in obedience...of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness." So that any act of good to1 man in obedience to God, if it arise from any motive but a desire of the...

...act itself. In this view of the case, Paley's definition is doubly in error. " Virtue," says he, " is the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the...of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness." On this principle, the benevolent designs of Howard, would be declared devoid of the quality of virtue,...

...been a textbook in our highest seminaries of learning, has given us this definition of virtue ; — " Virtue is the doing good to mankind, in obedience...of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness." For the sake of evei'lasting happiness ! It is then, for the sake of happiness, — for its tendency...

...advocate, Dr Paley, and we find it stated by him in few and explicit words. " Virtue,'1 says Paley, "is the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the...will of God and for the sake of everlasting happiness !" The motive then from which all duty or virtue must proceed is the hope of everlasting happiness....