Bection

403. Feelings of obligation simple and not susceptible of definition

404. They are susceptible of different degrees

405. Of their authoritative and enforcing nature

406. Feelings of obligation differ from those of mere approval and dis-

approval

407. Feelings of obligation have particular reference to the future

408. Feelings of obligation subsequent in time to the moral emotions

of approval and disapproval

409. Feelings of obligation differ from desires

410. Further considerations on this subject.

CHAPTER IV.

UNIFORMITY OF ACTION IN THE MORAL SENSIBILITIES.

411. Of uniformity in the decisions of the moral nature and the princi-

ple on which it is regulated

412. The nature of conscience, considered as a uniform principle of ac-

tion, requires that it should vary in its decisions with circum-

stances

Page

427

428

ib.

429

430

431

432

ib.

413. Diversities in moral decisions dependent on differences in the

amount of knowledge

436

414. Of diversities in moral judgment in connexion with differences

in civil and political institutions

416. Further illustrations of the influence of wrong speculative opin-

ions

417. Influence of early associations on moral judgments

418. Of diversities in the moral judgment in connexion with an excited

state of the passions .

CHAPTER V.

MORAL EDUCATION.

419. Suggestions on the importance of moral education

415. Of diversities and obliquities of moral judgment in connexion

with speculative opinions

420. The mind early occupied either with good or bad principles

421. Of the time when moral instruction ought to commence

422. Of the discouragements attending a process of moral instruction 445

423. Of the importance, in a moral point of view, of adopting correct

speculative opinions

424. Of the knowledge of the Supreme Being, and of the study of re-

ligious truth generally

THE SENSIBILITIES, OR SENSITIVE NATURE.

SENSITIVE STATES OF THE MIND OR SENTIMENTS.

PART III.

IMPERFECT OR DISORDERED SENSITIVE ACTION.

CHAPTER I.

DISORDERED AND ALIENATED ACTION OF THE APPETITES AND PROPEN-

SITIES.

425. Introductory remarks on disordered sensitive action

426. Of what is meant by a disordered and alienated state of the sensi-

bilities

451

427. Of the disordered and alienated action of the appetites

ib.

452

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428. Disordered action of the principle of self-preservation

429. Disordered and alienated action of the possessory principle. 455

430. Instances of the second kind or form of disordered action of the

possessory principle

ib.

457

431. Disordered action of imitativeness, or the principle of imitation. 456

432. Disordered action of the principle of sociality

433. Further remarks on the disordered action of the social propensity 458

434. Of the disordered action of the desire of esteem

435. Disordered action of the desire of power

CHAPTER II.

SYMPATHETIC IMITATION.

436. Of sympathetic imitation, and what is involved in it

437. Familiar instances of sympathetic imitation.

438. Instances of sympathetic imitation at the poor-house of Harlem.

439. Other instances of this species of imitation

CHAPTER III.

DISORDERED ACTION OF THE AFFECTIONS.

459

460

440. Of the states of mind denominated presentiments

441. Of sudden and strong impulses of the mind.

442. Insanity of the affections or passions

443. Of the mental disease termed hypochondriasis

444. Of intermissions of hypochondriasis, and of its remedies

445. Disordered action of the passion of fear

446. Perversions of the benevolent affections

CHAPTER IV.

DISORDERED ACTION OF THE MORAL SENSIBILITIES.

447. Nature of voluntary moral derangement

475

448. Of accountability in connexion with this form of disordered

449. Of natural or congenital moral derangement

450. Of moral accountability in cases of natural or congenital moral

MENTAL PHILOSOPHY.

DIVISION FIRST.

THE INTELLECT OR UNDERSTANDING.

INTELLECTIVE OR INTELLECTUAL STATES OF THE MIND.

PART FIRST.

INTELLECTUAL STATES OF EXTERNAL ORIGIN.