.NDE2.ODcxMg
17.
therefore we ^ addition also /addition call yt. a morally good character, wherein a series of deletion good /deletion morally good Actions prevail; & yt. a morally good temper, in which ye. morally good affections have ye. Ascendant; & bad character & temper in determin'd by ye. reverse. But Where ye. above mention'd order or proportion of passions in maintain'd, there a ^ addition underline series of /underline /addition morally good Affections & actions will prevail; so yt. to have a morally good Temper & character is ye. maintaining yt. order & proportion; but a morally good Temper & character is Moral Rectitude, Integrity Virtue, or ye. completion of duty.
If 'tis ask'd how we come by ye. idea of Moral obligation of duty? We may with reason answer yt. we come by it, in like manner as deletion unclear /deletion addition by our /addition] original & primary perceptions, we get them all from ye. great founder of Nature; for this idea is not creature of ye. mind, nor dependent on any previous act or volition, but deletion unclear /deletion addition arrives /addition deletion from /deletion addition on certain /addition occasions, or when other ideas appear before ye. mind as necessarily, unavoidably, & instantaneously, as pain on coming too near a fire, & pleasure from ye. friction of any good. For instance 'tis not in our choise whether we will feel ye. obligation to assist a distress'd parent, or to restore what is deposited into Hands. we cannot all this a compound ^ addition idea made /addition deletion of /deletion unclear of many Ideas; yet we must certainly have antecedent ideas to it, such as yt. of a parent - in distress - of a child - able to assist - of ye. Relation of one to another - of a Trust - of right & c. but on of these make ye. perception of Obligation. This idea is quite different from & superadded to ye. ideas of ye. relation between them. These by a law of our nature, are ye. occasion of Suggesting them deletion them. There by ye ^ unclear nature suggest to it /deletion
