The Laws Of Nature Are The Rules

The Want Of Faith, As Well As Faith Itself, Is Best Shewn By Works. If A Sceptic Avoid The Fire As Much As Those Who Believe It Dangerous To Go Into It, We Can Hardly Avoid Thinking His Scepticism To Be Feigned, And Not Real.

The Rules Of Navigation Never Navigated A Ship. The Rules Of Architecture Never Built A House.

It Is Natural To Men To Judge Of Things Less Known, By Some Similitude They Observe, Or Think They Observe, Between Them And Things More Familiar Or Better Known. In Many Cases, We Have No Better Way Of Judging. And, Where The Things Compared Have Really A Great Similitude In Their Nature, When There Is Reason To Think That They Are Subject To The Same Laws, There May Be A Considerable Degree Of Probability In Conclusions Drawn From Analogy.

A Philosopher Is, No Doubt, Entitled To Examine Even Those Distinctions That Are To Be Found In The Structure Of All Languages... In That Case, Such A Distinction May Be Imputed To A Vulgar Error, Which Ought To Be Corrected In Philosophy.

It Appears Evident, Therefore, That Those Actions Only Can Truly Be Called Virtuous, And Deserving Of Moral Approbation, Which The Agent Believed To Be Right, And To Which He Was Influenced, More Or Less, By That Belief.