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This Laudable Quality Is Commonly Known By The Name Of Manners And Good-breeding, And Consists In A Fashionable Habit, Acquir'd By Precept And Example, Of Flattering The Pride And Selfishness Of Others, And Concealing Our Own With Judgment And Dexterity.

It Is Visible Then That It Was Not Any Heathen Religion Or Other Idolatrous Superstition, That First Put Man Upon Crossing His Appetites And Subduing His Dearest Inclinations, But The Skilful Management Of Wary Politicians; And The Nearer We Search Into Human Nature, The More We Shall Be Convinced, That The Moral Virtues Are The Political Offspring Which Flattery Begot Upon Pride.

If Laying Aside All Worldly Greatness And Vain-glory, I Should Be Ask'd Where I Thought It Was Most Probable That Men Might Enjoy True Happiness, I Would Prefer A Small Peaceable Society, In Which Men, Neither Envy'd Nor Esteem'd By Neighbours, Should Be Contented To Live Upon The Natural Product Of The Spot They Inhabit, To A Vast Multitude Abounding In Wealth And Power, That Should Always Be Conquering Others By Their Arms Abroad, And Debauching Themselves By Foreign Luxury At Home.

I Don't Believe That There Is A Human Creature In His Senses, Arrived To Maturity, That At Some Time Or Other Has Not Been Carried Away By This Passion (sc. Envy) In Good Earnest; Yet I Never Met With Any One Who Dared Own He Was Guilty Of It But In Jest.

The Only Thing Of Weight That Can Be Said Against Modern Honor Is That It Is Directly Opposite To Religion. The One Bids You Bear Injuries With Patience, The Other Tells You If You Don't Resent Them, You Are Not Fit To Live.