The Argument. Introduction To This More Difficult Part Of The Subject. Of Truth And Its Three Classes, Matter Of Fact, Experimental Or Scientifical Truth, (Contradistinguished From Opinion) And Universal Truth: Which Last Is Either Metaphysical Or Geometrical, Either Purely Intellectual Or Perfectly Abstracted. On The Power Of Discerning Truth Depends That Of Acting With The View Of An End; A Circumstance Essential To Virtue. Of Virtue, Considered In The Divine Mind As A Perpetual And Universal Beneficence. Of Human Virtue, Considered As A System Of Particular Sentiments And Actions, Suitable To The Design Of Providence And The Condition Of Man; To Whom It Constitutes The Chief Good And The First Beauty. Of Vice And Its Origin. Of Ridicule: Its General Nature And Final Cause. Of The Passions; Particularly Of Those Which Relate To Evil Natural Or Moral, And Which Are Generally Accounted Painful, Though Not Always Unattended With Pleasure.