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663 General (v. Abstract)—idea of power, 161; ideas of pleasure, 425; character and actions 'considered in general' produce a particular kind of pleasure or pain which we call virtue or vice, 412; everything which gives uneasiness in human actions upon the general survey is called vice, 499.

Genius—a magical faculty of collecting appropriate ideas when using general terms, 24.

Geometry (v. Mathematics), 45 f., 71, 72.

God—as prime mover, 159; idea oil derived from an impression, 160; the doctrine of an immaterial thinking substance leads necessarily to Atheism just as Spinoza'a system does, 240 f.; the idea of God derived from particular impressions, none of which contain any efficacy nor seem to have any connexion with any other existence, and so we can have no idea of the efficacy of God as a cause, 248; to regard God as the efficacious principle which supplies the deficiency of all causes is to make him the author of all our perceptions and volitions, good and bad, 249; the order of the universe proves an omnipotent mind, but we can have no idea of God any more than we can of force, 633 n.

Good—general appetite to good, considered merely as such, 417; and evil=pleasure and pain, 276, 399, 438, 439 (v. Moral); three kinds of goods distinguished; internal satisfaction of our minds, external advantages of our body, enjoyment of possessions, 487.

Good humour, 611.

Goodness and benevolence, 602 f.

Golden age—poetical fiction of, contains a valuable truth, 494.

Government.

§ 1. The origin of, 534 f.; necessary to remedy man's inclination to prefer a near to a remote good, and so to violate the laws of property, 534-6; this remedied by making the observance of those laws the nearest interest of a certain few men, 537; though composed of men subject to all human infirmities becomes a composition which is in some measure exempted from all those infirmities, 539; not necessary in all societies: generally arises from quarrels between men belonging to different societies: foreign war without government produces civil war: 'camps are the true mothers of cities,' 540; monarchy arises rather from war than patriarchal authority: the state of society without government is one of the most natural states of men, and survives long after the first generation: but in it the laws of justice are obligatory, 541.

§ 2. Allegiance or submission to government, 539 f., at first rests on promises which are 'the original sanction of government and the source of the first obligation to obedience, 541; hence the theory that it rests on consent, which is only true of it at first, not in all ages, 542; its principal object is to constrain men to observe the laws of Nature (q.v.) which include the duty to observe