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681 morality,' though afterwards the sense of morality or duty may produce an action without any other motive, 479, 518; the motive to acts of justice or honesty distinct from regard to the honesty, 480 f., is sense of interest directed by reflection, 489; when this interest becomes remote and general and only felt by sympathy it becomes moral, 499; 'self-interest the original motive to the establishment oi justice, but a sympathy with public interest is the source of the moral approbation which attends that virtue, 500 (v. Justice).

Names—common: their function in forming ideas of substances, 16, in making abstract ideas generally representative, 20; used without a clear idea, 162.

Nationality—sense of, 317.

Nations—Laws of, 567 f.; the moral obligation to observe them not so strong as in the case of individuals, 569; 'national and private morality,' 569.

Natural—

§ 1. Opposed to philosophical relations, 13, 170 (v. Cause, § 6 C); opposed to normal: our false reasonings are only natural as a malady is natural, 226; opposed to artificial (q.v.), 117, 475, 489, 526, 619; opposed to original, 280, 281; =original, 368; opposed to miraculous, 474; opposed to rare and unusual, 549 (cf. 483); opposed to civil, 528; our civil duties chiefly invented for the sake of our natural, 543; and moral evidence, 404, 406.

§ 2. and moral obligation (q.v.), 475 n, 491; no natural obligation to perform promises. 516 f.; there is only a natural obligation to an act when it is required by a natural passion, when we have an inclination towards it as we have to humanity and the other natural virtues, 518, 519, 525 (cf. 546); natural obligation=interest, 551; moral obligation varies with natural, 569; most unphilosophical to say that virtue is the same with what is natural, 475; the natural virtues or vices are those which have no dependence on the artitice and contrivance of man. 574f. (cf. 530); those qualities which we naturally approve of have a tendency to the good of mankind, and render a man a proper member of society, 578 (cf. 528); e.g. meekness, beneficence, charity, generosity, equity, 578; the good which results from the natural virtues results from every single act, while it does not result from single acts of justice, 579 (cf. 497); natural abilities, why distinguished from moral virtues, 606 f. (v. Moral, § 4).

Nature—

§ 1. Operations of, 'independent of our thought and reasoning,' viz. relations of contiguity, successions, and resemblance, 168; complexity of, 175; few and simple principles in, 282, 473, 528 (cf. 578); natural world more full of contradictions than intellectual, 232.

§ 2. 'By an absolute and uncontrollable necessity, has determined