ABSTRACT
His lordship thus concluded man to be endowed with a “Moral Sentiment” that instinctively instructed one in matters of right and wrong. The development of this faint non-rational monitor is the chief duty of man; and to this elegant peer perfect virtue is the result of an acquired perfect taste in morals. The relaxed and discursive suavity of Shaftesbury’s style won him friends and annoyed his enemies.
