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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 159

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  1. Noral Relations.
  2. is thoushe Praise worchr; and nochins elle bur that, whieh has the alloW
  3. ance et publick Fleem, is Vertue. Vertue and Praise are (o united, chatther
  4. arecalledosten by the lame Narrie. Sunt sua praemia L audi, Cays Virsil; and
  5. SoCicero, nihil habet natura praestantius, quam Tonestatem, quam L. audem-
  6. quam Dignitatem, quam Decus, Wrhrich he rells vou, aro all Names lor the
  7. same thins, Tusc. l. 2. This is the Languase ot the FTcathen Philoso
  8. phers, Wrho ell understood wherein their Notions oF Vertue and Vice
  9. conlilted. And thoush, Perhaps, by the ditterent Temper, Fdlucation,
  10. Fathion, Maxims. Or Interest ot difterent Pores ofMenit Fell out, thac ivhar
  11. Was thoughe Praise. worthy in one Place, escaped not censure in another;
  12. and so in ditterene Societies, Vertues and Vices ivere chansed: Vet a5 to
  13. the Main, ther For themost part Kept the lame every wtere. For lincc
  14. nothins ean be more natural, than to encourase rith Fltcem and Repu-
  15. tation, thac wrherein evers one tinds his Advantase; and to blame
  16. and discountenance the contrarr: tis no Wonder that Fsteem
  17. and Discredie; Vertue and Vice, Mould in a great measure every wrtiere
  18. correspond rith the unchranscable Rule os Rislt and Wrons. Which the
  19. Ta oF Ciod hath establisted; there being nothing, that (o directlY, and
  20. visibly secures, and adrances the general Cood of Mankind in this Worid,
  21. 25 Obedience to the Laws hc has set them, and nothins that breeds suctr
  22. Mischiets and Contusion, asthe neslect of them. And cheretore Men,
  23. without renouncins all Sense and Reason, andtheir omn Interest, Wrhich
  24. they are (o constanel true to, could noc generall mistale, in placins
  25. their Commendation and Blame on that lide, that really deserved it nor.
  26. Nar, even those Men, Whole Practice as otherwile, ailed not to sive
  27. their Approbation riglt, Ter beins depraved to chat Dogrec, as noc to
  28. condemn, at lealt in others, the Faules ther chemselres eere suiler of.
  29. Wrhereby even in the Corruption oF Manners, the true Boundaries oF the
  30. the Lar ofNature, Which oushtto be the Rule of Vertue and Vicc, vere
  31. pretty vell preserved. S0 that even the Exhortations of inspired Tca-
  32. chers, hare not seared to appeal to common Repute. Whatsoever is love-
  33. ly. Whatsoever is of e00d report, if there be any rertue, if there be any
  34. praise, (55. Phil. 4. 8.
  35. 8. 12. IFany one Mall imagine, chat Phave forgot my omn Notion ol à
  36. Lar, When Imalce the Lau, Whereby Nen judge of Vertue and Vice, 10
  37. be nothins else, but the Consent ol prirate Men, Wrho have noc Autho-
  38. rity enouoh to malce a Law: Especially wantins chat, Whichis lonecellary.
  39. and essential to a LaWr, a Pover tointorce it: l chinkE, P may Pay, that he
  40. Who imagines Commendation and Disgrace, not to be Arons Motires on
  41. Men, to accommodate themselves to the Opinions and Rules ot those
  42. rici whom ches converse, seems little slrilld’in the Nature, or Iistory oF
  43. Mantcind, the greatest part whereot, he Mall find to sovern chemselres
  44. chieAy, it nor solely, by chis TaWr ot Fachion; and so thes do that, Wrhrich
  45. lcepsthem in Repuration ich cheir Companz, licele recard the Larrs ot
  46. Cod, Or theMasiltrate. The Penalties, that attend the breach ot 60d5
  47. Lars, Lome, nay, perhaps, most Men seldom scrioully reflect on: and a-
  48. monss thole chiat do, mans wwhilathes break the Law, entertain Thoughis
  49. Ot fucure reconciliation, and mattins their Peace For such Breaches: And
  50. as tothe Punistiments, due trom the Laurs otthe C ommon. Wealch, chey tre-
  51. quenely Aarter themselves rith chehopes ot Impunitr. But no Man scapes
  52. the Punistiment ol cheir Censure and Distikce, ivlo obtends acainst Fhe F2-
  53. Aion and Opinion of the Compans he lceps, and mould recommend
  54. himseltto. Pdoris there one of ten thouland, whois stist and insensible
  55. enoush, e0 bear up under ehe constant Dillilie, aud Condemnation ot his
  56. OWI

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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, fol. 159. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/778263916:0175?run=74