Map · Book 3: Of Morals · Part 2: Of justice and injustice · T 3.2.8 Of the source of allegiance
T 3.2.8.8 n80
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This proposition must hold strictly true, with regard to every quality, that is determin'd merely by sentiment. In what sense we can talk either of a right or a wrong taste in morals, eloquence, or beauty, shall be consider'd afterwards. In the mean time, it may be observ'd, that there is such an uniformity in the general sentiments of mankind, as to render such questions of but small importance.