Excerpt from Thirty Thousand Thoughts, Vol. 3: Sections 10, 11; With Sectional Indices The section of the Virtues commenced in the Second Volume is continued in the present, and forms in itself about the size of one whole volume. Upon none of the sections has more time and thought been bestowed. Strange as it may appear, there is no one existing book that could be found which embraces all the various moral qualities, treating them, as a whole, in any method, however simple. Nor does there appear to be a large collection of original remarks or collected thoughts upon any considerable number of the virtues and vices, or upon even any one oi their main groups. Of promising and alluring titles in Watt's Bibliotheca, especially of writers of the: eighteenth century, there is indeed a plentiful crop but these are, in nearly every case, wholly misleading and vexatiously disappointing. Even in cases where you find a book or article at all honestly corresponding to its description, there is really very little which can be usefully extracted. In the writings of the Greek philosophers, of the Schoolmen, as well as of modern Ethical writers, you find theories and counter-theories respecting speculative and moral problems, and the smallest possible residuum of helpful matter. There is plenty of husk but little grain and where you look for fruit, there these learned authorities run to seed. 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.