Origine of PATRIARCHAL GOVERNMENT.

 

43 f. Origine of TRUE RELIGION and GOVERNMENT from the Principle of LOVE: and of SUPERSTITION and TYRANNY, from that of FEAR.

 

44 f. The Influence of SELF-LOVE operating to the SOCIAL and Public Good.

 

45 f. Restoration of True Religion and Government on their first Principle. Mixt Governments; with the various Forms of each, and the TRUE USE OF ALL. The Deduction and Application of the foregoing Principles, with the Use or Abuse of Civil and Ecclesiastical Policy, was intended for the subject of the third book.

 

46 f. HAPPINESS the END of all Men, and attainable by all.

 

47 f. GOD governs by general not particular Laws; intends Happiness to be equal; and to be so, it must be social, since all particular Happiness depends on general.

 

48 It is necessary for ORDER and the common Peace, that External Goods be unequal, therefore Happiness is not constituted in these.

 

49 f. The balance of human happiness kept equal (notwithstanding Externals) by HOPE and FEAR. The Exemplification of this Truth, by a View of the Equality of Happiness in the several particular Stations of Life, were design'd for the subject of a future Epistle.

 

50 f. In what the Happiness of Individuals consists, and that the GOOD MAN has the Advantage, even in this world.

 

51 f. That no man is unhappy thro' VIRTUE.

 

52 f. That External Goods are not the proper Rewards of Virtue; often inconsistent with or destructive of it; but that all these can make no man happy without Virtue. Instanced in each of them. 1. Riches. 2. Honours. 3. Titles. 4. Birth. 5. Greatness. 6. Fame. 7. Superior Parts.

 

53 f. That VIRTUE only constitutes a Happiness, whose Object is Universal, and whose Prospect Eternal.

 

54 f. That the Perfection of Happiness consists in a Conformity to the Order of Providence here, and a Resignation to it, here and hereafter.

 

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