The moral instructor, and guide to virtue .. by Torrey Jesse jr

Author:Torrey, Jesse, jr. [from old catalog]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Ethics
Publisher: Philadelphia : J. Grigg
Published: 1826-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

153 profession ; as in smuggling or adulterating the articles In

which he deals. For the servant is bound by nothing but his own promise; and the obligation of a promise, extends not to things unlawful.

12 For the same reason, the master's authority is no justification of the servant in doing wrong; for the servant's own promise, upon which that authority is founded, would be none.

13 Clerks and apprentices ought to be employed entirely in the profession or trade which they are intended to learn. Instruction is their hire, and to deprive them of the opportunities of instruction, by taking up their time with occupations foreign to their business, is to defraud them of their wages.

14 A master'of a family is culpable, if he permit any vices among his domestics, which he might restrain by due discipline and a proper interference. This results from the general obligation to prevent misery when in our power; and the assurance which we have, that vice and misery, at the long run, go together.

SECTION VI. Lies; revenge; duelling; slander.

1 A lie is a breach of promise; for whoever seriously ad> Presses his discourse to another, tacitly promises to speak the truth, because he knows that the truth is expected.

2 Or the obligation of veracity may be made out from the direct ill consequences of lying to social happiness. Which consequences consist, either in some specific injury to particular individuals, or in the destruction of that confidence, which is essential to the intercourse q{ human life: for which latter reason, a lie may be pernicious in its general tendency, and therefore criminal, though it produce no particular or visible mischief to any one.

3 All pain occasioned to another in consequence of an offence, or injury received from him, farther than what is calculated to procure reparation, or promote the just ends of punishment, is so much revenge. It is highly probable, from the light of nature, that a passion, which seeks its gratification immediately and expressly in giving pain, is disagreeable to the benevolent will and counsels of the Creator.

4 The feuds and animosities in families and between neighbors, which disturb the intercourse of human life, and collectively compose half the misery of it, have their foundation in the w r ant of a forgiving temper; and can never cease, but by the exercise of this virtue, on one side or both.

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