Excerpt from The Lectures, Corrected and Improved, Which Have Been Delivered for a Series of Years in the College of New Jersey, Vol. 2 of 2: On the Subjects of Moral and Political Philosophy, the Former Part Embracing, I. The General Principles of Human Nature Considered as a Subject of Moral Sciences; II. The Principles of Ethics, or the Moral Relations and Duties of Men Natural theology, therefore, brings to view the most powerful sanction of the moral law. It renders the law itself more clear by discovering the source from which it emanates - inasmuch as the human mind, when sensi bly placing itself in the divine presence, becomes more susceptible of the impressions of truth, -more ready to admit its evidence, and more apprehensive of being mis led by, the sophistries of error. - The theory of duty. 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.