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Excerpt from A Guide to Moral and Social Manners: Containing the Rules of Duty and the Reason of Them, Showing Whence Our Obligations Arise and Where They Terminate; Adapted to the Capacity of the Young, and to a Republican Form of Government, for the Use of Colleges, Academies, and Schools
Of con?icting Opinions, diverse interests, or opposing parties, so that complete justice can only obtain when correct moral sentiment prevails and forms public Opinion. When this can be effected the courts Of law will be less resorted to, men's idea of right' and wrong will better agree, men will be more constrained by a sense Of right; but it is only by early training that this agreement can be effected - correct principle, once acquired, will bind the consciences Of men, and lead them in the path of duty, justice, and recti tude.
It can not but be desirable tohave a code Of plain rules, easy to be comprehended, which shall aid the formation Of correct Opinion on the subject of human duty; it is more important that our opinions be correct in respect to right and wrong than in re spect to any other subject; and if the minds Of youth be thoroughly imbued with sound general principles, they will be instinctively applied in the various situations and circum stances in life. Fixed principles will take the place of error, passion, and selfishness.
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