COLLECTIONS ON CHARITY, &c. UR duty towards our neighbour, the knowledge of which is called the Science of Ethics, is founded on our duty towards GOD. From his conftitution of our being we derive our sympathy, our benevolence, our fenfe of fitness, or of justice, or of truth; our prudence, our self-love, our reason, and whatever else the partial views of theorifts can poffibly affign as the fundamental principle of moral action. From his conftitution of our being proceed all moral as well as all phyfical relations. We clearly perceive, no doubt, the relation between our lungs and the air, between our muscles and our bones, between those of the jaw and the teeth, between these and the organs of deglutition, of digeftion, of fecretion, of abforption; between veins and arteries, arteries and lungs, between all and the heart. The relations between perceptions and fenfations, between the latter and appetites, between these and the affections of pleasure and difpleasure, between thofe and me mory, between memory and emotions, paffions, habits, tempers, faculties, and energies, are not lefs manifeft. Our neceffary dependence on each other for our general well-being; the relations between appetites, emotions, and fexual attractions, between B |