ii 220 Self- government of ntial to Wzfdom. S E R M. there are other parts which hold an inferior IX. place, and ought to be in fubje Lion. Now 4-"""v""") if we attend to the conftitution of the hu- man fpirit in its full extent, we fhall find in it a great variety of powers and affeEtions, various fenfes or ways of perceiving things without us; various delires and averfions; a power of reflecting upon ourfelves, of comparing our own thoughts, and the re- prefentations which are made to our minds of things as good or evil; of inquiring into the importance of them, and all the confi- derations which fhould direct our choice, and of determining upon the whole. We find alfo that which is called cony fence, a fenfe of duty and fin, and of moral good and evil ; a neceffary felf- approbation arifing from the one, and reproach and condemna- tion from the other. There are, befides, a great many propenfities in our minds which cannot be called in the ftricteft fenfe natural, but incidental rather, and which take their rife, not from the effence of our conftitu- tion, but from particular occafions in life, various complexion of body, and other in- cidental caufes. To make this plain by ex- amples ; we fee a great difference in the tempers of men, fome eagerly covet wealth, others have an impatient thirft for power and
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