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Moral Science; A Compendium of Ethics

CHAPTER III
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The perturbation of fear rises up as a deterring motive when dangers loom in the distance.

One powerful check to the commission of injury is the retaliation of the sufferer, which is a danger of the vague and illimitable kind, calculated to create alarm.
Anger, or Resentment, also enters, in various ways, into our moral impulses.

In one shape it has just been noticed.

In concurrence with Self-interest and Sympathy, it heightens the feeling of reprobation against wrong-doers.
The Tender Emotion, and the Affections, uphold us in the performance of our duties to others, being an additional safeguard against injury to the objects of the feelings.

It has already been shown how these emotions, while tending to coalesce with Sympathy proper, are yet distinguished from it.
The AEsthetic Emotions have important bearings upon Ethical Sentiment.
As a whole, they are favourable to human virtue, being non-exclusive pleasures.


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