ABSTRACT
Hypotheses of benevolence and self love - Superiority of the former. - Action is either voluntary or involuntary. - Nature of the first of these classes. - Argument that results from it. - Voluntary action has a real existence. - Consequence of that existence. Experimental view of the subject. - Suppositions suggested by the advocates of self love -That we calculate upon all occasions the advantage to accrue to us. - Falseness of this supposition. - Supposition of a contrary sort. - We do not calculate what would be the uneasiness to result from our refraining to act - Either in relieving distress - Or in adding to the stock of general good. - Uneasiness an accidental member of the process. - The suppositions inconsistently blended. - Scheme of self love recommended from the propensity of mind to abbreviate its process - From the simplicity that obtains in the natures of things. - Hypothesis of self love incompatible with virtue. - Conclusion. Importance of the question. '- Application.
