Excerpt from A General Treatise of Morality, Form'd Upon the Principles of Natural Reason Only: With a Preface in Answer to Two Essays Lately Published in the Fable of the Bees, and Some Incidental Remarks Upon an Inquiry Concerning Virtue, by the Right Honourable Anthony Earl of Shaftsbury Adapted, or as yet generalh pared for the Culture of /o rte/i; ned a Philofophy, it has not yet taken Root, or goread proportion to tho/e and generous Prineiples, wherewith it is every where replete. Ewen his exc hut in few Hands, and among tho/e, the Value of it is [ome times much hetter known by the' Name the fluthor, than hy a proper the Book. There ething in it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.