...acknowledged to be liable to considerable objections. He commences with the proposition that virtue is doing good to mankind, ' in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness. The good of- mankind, therefore, is the subject — the will of God, the rule — and everlasting happiness,...

...acknowledged to be liable to considerable objections. He commences with the proposition that virtue is doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlastmg happiness. The good of mankind, therefore, is the subject— the will of God, the rule —...

...different kind, and cannot be rendered thus positive. Dr. Paley asserts that 'virtue is the doing good, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness.' Now if he could have proved this by a train of reasoning founded upon a self-evident proposition, no...

...from the command of another." He had before given what he calls a definition of virtue, that it is " the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, for the sake of everlasting happiness,"—and a definition of obligation,—" A man is said to be obliged,...

...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...

...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 to the will...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...

...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,...

...chap. 2. sec. 2.] (^Concerning the latter part of the definition, Dr. Brown says, " Virtue he defines to be, ' the doing good to mankind, in obedience to...of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness.' The last part of the definition is the most important part of the whole. For, the knowledge of this...

...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...