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Moral Science; A Compendium of Ethics

PART II
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The ethical doctrine that the just man is happy and the unjust miserable, is to be preached; and every one prohibited from contradicting it.

Of all the titles to command in society, Wisdom is the highest, although policy may require it to be conjoined with some of the others (Birth, Age, Strength, Accident, &c.).

It is to be a part of the constitution to provide public exhortations, or sermons, for inculcating virtue; Plato having now passed into an opposite phase as to the value of Rhetoric, or continuous address.

The family is to be allowed in its usual form, but with restraints on the age of marriage, on the choice of the parties, and on the increase of the number of the population.

Sexual intercourse is to be as far as possible confined to persons legally married; those departing from this rule are, at all events, to observe secresy.


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