Excerpt from A System of Moral Philosophy, in Three Books, Vol. 2 of 3This rule holds generally in all matters of com merce 1 committed to human prudence, in all alien able rights, in fuch aétions or performances as are not direétly impious toward God, nor oppofite to fome perfect right of another, nor to fome fpecial law probi biting our tranfaéiions about them: contraéis in which men fin againft fome general law may be obligatory, or fuch as are againfi the interefis of their friends or families, where their right is only imperfeét: fuch con traéls too muff likewife be of fome detriment to the publick. But the allowing men to recede from all im prudent contraéts would be of far greater detriment, as it would obfirué't all commerce, or occafion innw merable inextricable debates. Whoever repented of a bargain, could always plead the imprudence of it.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.