Thofe relating to the ORIGINAL of our IDEAS The SECOND EDITION, Corrected. By RICHARD PRICE, F. R.S. Ου γαρ εγω εγωγε «δεν κτω μοι εναργες ον, ὡς τέλος το In Homine autem fumma omnis animi eft ; in animo, rationis ; ex qua VIRTUS CICERO, De finibus, lib. v. 14. -omnium rerum domina. Ibid. LONDON: PRINTED FOR T. CADELL (SUCCESSOR TO MD.CC.LXIX. Published by the fame Author, Printed for T. CADELL (Succeffor to Mr. MILLAR) in the Strand, Fo The Second Edition, with Additions, OUR DISSERTATIONS. I. On PROVI DENCE. II. On PRAYER. III. On the REASONS for expecting that virtuous Men fhall meet after Death in a State of Happiness. IV. On the Importance of CHRISTIANITY, the Nature of HISTORICALS EVIDENCE, and MIRACLES, 7-23-48 PREFACE. I Am very fenfible, that the following work offers itself to the publick under many difadvantages, and at a time when it is not to be expected that it can gain much attention. So important, however, are the questions discussed in it, that i if, amid many imperfections, it has any merit, it cannot be unfeafonable, but will probably find fome, who will give it a candid and careful perufal The notes which will be found in it, were occafioned chiefly by its having lain by the Author for fome years, and received in that time several revifals es There is no writer to whom I have so much reafon to acknowledge myself indebted, as Dr. Butler, the late Bishop of Durham. But whenever I have been confcious of writing after him, I have almost always either mentioned him, or quoted his words; and the fame I have also scrupulously done with respect to other writers. There is nothing in this Treatise, to which I wish more I could engage the Reader's attention, or which, I think, will require it more, than the first Chapter, and particularly the Second Section of it. If I have failed here, I have failed in my chief de A 2 fign. fign. But I fhould be forry that any one should fix this as bis judgment, without going through the whole treatife, and comparing the different parts of it, which will be found to have a confiderable dependence on one another. The paint which I have endeavoured to prove in the last fection of the chapter I have mentioned, must appear fo plain to thofe who have not fludied the question about the foundation of Morals, or who have not before viewed it in the light in which I have placed it, that, I fear, it will be difficult for them not to think that I have trifled in beflowing so much pains upon it. And indeed my own conviction is Arong on this point, that I cannot help confidering it as fome reproach to human reafon, that, by the late controverfies, and the doubts of fome of the wifeft men, it should be rendered neceffary to use many arguments to fhew, that right and wrong, or moral good and evil, fignify fomewhat really true of actions, and not merely fenfations. Uuod, SRu PRD To o 3 aa IT pi], sidorobijtroɔ a sund of brang 94 Haur dsida ti o different from what it was in the former edi In note p. 54. there is a reference to a Dis- CONTENTS. |