Excerpt from Essays on the Principles of Morality: And on the Private and Political Rights and Obligations of Mankind

Rejecting what he considered the false grounds Of duty, and erroneous principles Of action which are proposed in the most prominent and most generally received Of our extant theories Of moral Obligation, he proceeds to erect a system Of morality upon what he regards as the only true and legitimate basis, - the will OF god. He makes, therefore, the authority of the Deity the sole ground Of duty, and His communicated will the only ultimate standard of right and wrong, and assumes, that wheresoever this will is made known, human duty is determined -and that neither the conclusions of philosophers, nor advantages, nor dangers, nor pleasures, nor sufferings, ought to have any opposing in¿uence in regulating our conduct.

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