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POLITICAL SCIENCE;

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RETROSPECT of LECTURES delivered in the COLLEGE of EDINBURGH.

LATE

BEING CHIEFLY A

BY ADAM FERGUSON, L. L. D & F. R. S. E.
PROFESSOR OF MORAL PHILOSOPHY.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

Huc enim pertinet, animal hoc providum, fagax, multiplex, acutum, memor, plenum rationis et confilii, quem vocamus hominem, præclara quadam conditione generatum effe a

fummo Deo.

CIC. DE LEGG. Cap. VII.

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SECT. V. Of prosperity and adverfity, or the gifts of fortune.

SECT. VI. Of happiness and mifery.

SECT. VII. Of the actual measures and fources of good and evil in human life.

SECT. VIII. Of the fame fubject continued.

CHA P. II.

Of the Fundamental Law of Morality, its immediate Applications

and Sanctions.

SECT. I. Of the law, or first principle of eftimation in the character of man.

SECT. II. Of the first and more general application of moral law.

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Sier. II. Of the difficulty which has arifen in accounting for moral approbation. P.116

SECT. IV. Of the difficulty of reconciling the different judgements of men re-

lating to the morality of external actions.

SECT. V. Of the fundamental rules of morality relating to external actions.

SECT. VI. Of the fame fubject continued.

SECT. VII. Of the unequal degrees of merit and demerit in external actions.

SECT. VIII. Of the obligations and fanctions of moral law.

CHA P. III.

Of Jurifprudence, or Compulfory Law. Part I.

SECT. I. Of the principle of compulsory law.

SECT. II. Of the term right in its moft general acceptation.

SECT. III. Of the law of defence in general.

SECT. IV. Of the general titles under which the rights of man may be claffed.

SECT. V. Of rights original.

SECT. VI. Of rights adventitious.

SECT. VII. Of the different fources of adventitious rights.

SECT. VIII. Of occupancy and the fpecies of right that may refult from it.

SECT. IX. Of labour and the species of right that may refult from it.

SECT. X. Of contract, or the principle of conventional obligation.

SECT. XI. Of the laws of convention, derived from the foregoing principle.

SECT. XII. Of the fpecific obligations and rights that refult from contract.

SECT. XIII. Of forfeiture and the fpecies of right which refults from it.

SECT. I. Of the means that may be opposed to injustice in general.

SECT. II. Of the law of defence, in the cafe of fingle perfons, ftrangers, and un-

connected.

SECT. II. Of the cafe of fellow citizens.

SECT. IV. Of the cafe of nations.

SECT. V. Of the fame fubject continued.

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