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Excerpt from Essays on the Principles of Morality: And on the Private and Political Rights and Obligations of Mankind
The Author of this Work died in the Spring of 1828, leav ing in manuscript the three Essays Of which it consists. We learn from himself that the undertaking originated in a belief (in which he probably is far from being alone) that the exist ing treatises on Moral Philosophy did not exhibit the princi ples nor enforce the obligations of morality in all their per fection and purity that a work was yet wanted which should present a true and, authoritative standard of rectitude - one by an appeal to Which the moral character of human actions might be rightly estimated. This he here endeavours to supply.
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