The Selected Writings of Benjamin RushPhilosophical Library, 1947 - 433 pages |
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Page 182
... moral faculty is to the conscience , what taste is to the judgment , and sensation to perception . It is quick in its operations , and like the sensitive plant , acts without reflection , while conscience fol- lows with deliberate steps ...
... moral faculty is to the conscience , what taste is to the judgment , and sensation to perception . It is quick in its operations , and like the sensitive plant , acts without reflection , while conscience fol- lows with deliberate steps ...
Page 190
... morals , can be ascribed to nothing else , but to the perfect union that subsists in nature between the dictates of reason , of taste , and of the moral faculty . Why has the spirit of humanity made such rapid progress for some years ...
... morals , can be ascribed to nothing else , but to the perfect union that subsists in nature between the dictates of reason , of taste , and of the moral faculty . Why has the spirit of humanity made such rapid progress for some years ...
Page 201
... moral faculty ? That many substances in the materia medica act upon the intellects is well known to physicians . Why should it be thought impossible for medicines to act in like manner upon the moral faculty ? May not the earth contain ...
... moral faculty ? That many substances in the materia medica act upon the intellects is well known to physicians . Why should it be thought impossible for medicines to act in like manner upon the moral faculty ? May not the earth contain ...
Contents
ON SLAVEKEEPING 1773 | 3 |
A PLAN OF A PEACEOFFICE FOR THE UNITED STATES | 19 |
SYLVANIA 1777 | 54 |
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