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Excerpt from The Lectures, Corrected and Improved, Which Have Been Delivered for a Series of Years in the College of New Jersey, Vol. 2 of 2: On the Subjects of Moral and Political Philosophy, the Former Part Embracing, I. The General Principles of Human Nature Considered as a Subject of Moral Sciences; II. The Principles of Ethics, or the Moral Relations and Duties of Men
Natural theology, therefore, brings to view the most powerful sanction of the moral law. It renders the law itself more clear by discovering the source from which it emanates - inasmuch as the human mind, when sensi bly placing itself in the divine presence, becomes more susceptible of the impressions of truth, -more ready to admit its evidence, and more apprehensive of being mis led by, the sophistries of error. - The theory of duty.
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