An Essay on the History of Civil Society, Eighth Edition

by Adam Ferguson

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

PART I.

Of the Propriety of Action.

Section I. Of the Sense of Propriety.

Chap. I. Of Sympathy.

Chap. II. Of the Pleasure of Mutual Sympathy.

Chap. III. Of the manner in which we judge of the Propriety or Impropriety of the Affections of other Men, by their concord or dissonance with our own.

Chap. IV. The same subject continued.

Chap. V. Of the Amiable and Respectable Virtues.

Section II. Of the Degrees of the different Passions which are consistent with Propriety.