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Part Iv. of the Effect of Utility Upon the Sentiment of Approbation.

Moral Science · Alexander Bain — chapter 74 of 102 · ~48 words · public domain

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Chapter I. is on the Beauty arising out of Utility. It is here that the author sets forth the dismal career of 'the poor man's son, whom heaven in the hour of her anger has curst with ambition,' and enforces his favourite moral lesson of contentment and tranquillity.

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