 | Charles Simmons - 1852 - 564 pages
...do you think you should love him, if you supposed he would not ? 857. SELFISH MORALITY DEFINED. ence to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness. Obedience to God is the principle, the good of mankind the matter, and our own happiness the end of... | |
 | Bengal council of educ - 1852 - 348 pages
...writers. 6. Paley lays down the proposition that virtue consists in doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness. He subsequently arrives at the conclusion that whatever is expedient is virtuous. Trace the chain of... | |
 | Alexander Campbell, Charles Louis Loos - 1852 - 734 pages
...superstition, ignorance and vice. If virtue consists in " the doing of good to mankind in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness," mankind must know the requisitions of Heaven before they can comply with them; must know the principles... | |
 | John Harris - 1852 - 492 pages
...theory of expediency, or of general consequences, " Virtue is the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness."* This proposition appears to place virtue on higher and nobler ground than that occupied by either of... | |
 | Alexander Somerville - 1853 - 628 pages
...him in few and explicit words. " Virtue," says Paley, " is the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God and for the sake of everlasting happiness !" The motive then from which all duty or virtue must proceed is the hope ot everlasting happiness.... | |
 | Alexander Somerville - 1853 - 612 pages
...him in few and explicit words. " Virtue," says Paley, " is the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God and for the sake of everlasting happiness !" The motive then from which all duty or virtue must proceed is the hope ot everlasting happiness.... | |
 | 1859 - 784 pages
...the doing good to mankind in obedience to the will of God, nnd fur the sokt of wrluslnnj hafifnness. According to which definition, the good of mankind is the subject, the will of God the rule, nnd everlasting happinrss the motive of virtue." It is such heresies as this, and the still grosser... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - 1917 - 488 pages
...obviously sufficient. Hence, the famous definition, "Virtue is the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness." This conclusion leads up to the argument of his later works. His HorcB Paulina and Evidences have to... | |
 | 1994 - 412 pages
...obviously sufficient. Hence the famous definition, " Virtue is the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness." and, in particular, in the human body. In these works we see how complete is the shifting of interest... | |
 | 1888 - 1008 pages
...pig's-wash. According to Paley's famous definition, virtue is ' doing good to mankind in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness.' The ' will of God ' gives the rule ; and everlasting happiness defines the motive. The only difference... | |
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Virtue is the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the Will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness. 
