For although prudence, as regards self, and sympathy or fellow-feeling, as regards others, would comprehend all the interests of mankind--everything that morality can desire to accomplish--nevertheless, the acting out of these impulses by each individual at random would not suffice for the exigencies of human life.

They must be regulated, directed, reconciled by society at large; each person must be made to work upon the same plan as every other person.

This leads to the institution of Government and Authority, with the correlatives of Law, Obligation, and Punishment.
Our natural impulses for good are now directed into an artificial channel, and it is no longer optional whether they shall fall into that channel.

The nature of the case requires all to conform alike to the general arrangements, and whoever is not sufficiently urged by the natural motives, is brought under the spur of a new kind of prudential motive--Punishment.
Government, Authority, Law, Obligation, Punishment, are all implicated in the same great Institution of Society, to which Morality owes its chief foundation, and the Moral Sentiment its special attribute.
Morality is not Prudence, nor Benevolence, in their primitive or spontaneous manifestations; it is the systematic codification of prudential and benevolent actions, rendered obligatory by what is termed penalties or Punishment; an entirely distinct motive, artificially framed by human society, but made so familiar to every member of society as to be a second nature.

None are allowed to be prudential or sympathizing in their own way.