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For by thus preserving his integrity for some time, his danger

would lessen, since propensions, by being inured to submit, would

do it more easily and of course and his security against this

lessening danger would increase, since the moral principle would

gain additional strength by exercise, both which things are

implied in the notion of virtuous habits." (From the chapter on

Moral Discipline m the Analogy, sect. iv.) The purpose of this

disquisition is to refute the Necessitarians; it is resumed in

the third chapter of this Book.

[2] Virtue is not only the duty, but (by the laws of the Moral

Government of the World) also the interest of Man, or to express

it in Bishop Butler's manner, Conscience and Reasonable self-love

are the two principles in our nature which of right have

supremacy over the rest, and these two lead in point of fact the

same course of action. (Sermon II.)