captive. one advance further in refinement will relinquish this also. if we have no right to the life of a captive, we have
no right to his labor; if none to his labor we have none to his absent property which is but the fruit of that labor. in fact,
ransom is but commutation in another form.
In the letter of June 13, 1814, to Thomas Law, previously quoted, Jefferson wrote: “
. . . I am happy in reviewing the roll of associates in this principle which you present in your 2
d letter, some of which I had not before met with. to these might be added L
d. Kaims, one of the ablest of our advocates, who goes so far as to say, in his Principles of Natural religion, that a man
owes no duty to which he is not urged by some impulsive feeling. this is correct if referred to the standard of general feeling
in the given case, and not to the feeling of a single individual. perhaps I may misquote him, it being fifty years since I
read his book . . .
”
Henry Home, Lord Kames, 1696-1782, Scottish judge. This book, written to combat some of the doctrines of Hume, raised suspicions of the author’s
own orthodoxy, resulting in a charge of heresy before the presbytery of Edinburgh, which was dismissed.
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Gros’s Moral Philosophy.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 57. no. 92, as above.
GROS,
Johann Daniel.
Natural Principles of Rectitude, for the Conduct of Man in all states and situations of Life; demonstrated and explained in
a systematic treatise on Moral Philosophy . . . By Johan. Daniel Gros, D.D. Minister of the German Reformed Church in the city of New-York, and Professor of Moral Philosophy, Geography and Chronology
in Columbia College . . .
New-York; Printed by
T. and J. Swords, Printers to the Faculty of Physic of Columbia College,
1795.
BJ1005 .G8
First Edition. 8vo. 236 leaves.
Sabin 28933.
Evans 28775.
Original tree sheep (scorched on the back). Initialled by Jefferson at sigs. I and T. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
Johann Daniel Gros, 1738-1812, German Reformed clergyman, emigrated from Heidelberg to Philadelphia in 1764. He became professor of German and
geography and later of moral philosophy at Columbia college.
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Hutchinson’s Introdñ to moral Philosophy. 1st. vol.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 57, no. 31, as above, with reading
Introduction.
HUTCHESON,
Francis.
A short Introduction to Moral Philosophy, in three Books; containing the Elements of Ethicks and the Law of Nature. By Francis Hutcheson, LLD. Late Professor of Philosophy in the University of Glasgow. Translated from the
Latin.
Third Edition. Vol. I.
Glasgow: Printed by
Robert & Andrew Foulis,
1764.
BJ1005 .H9
Sm. 8vo. Vol. I only. 105 leaves.
Cambridge Bibl. of Eng. Lit., page 947.
Jessop, page 145.
Rebound in red buckram by the Library of Congress.
Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I.
Philosophiae Moralis Institutio from which this was translated was first published in 1742, and the first English translation in 1747.
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