PART I.

OF THE PROPRIETY OF ACTIONS. PAGE SEC. I. Of the Sense of Propriety . . . . 9

CH. I. Of Sympathy . . . . . . 9-13 CH. II. Of the Pleasure of Mutual Sympathy . . 13-16 CH. III., IV. Of the manner in which we judge of the Propriety or Impropriety of the Affections of other Men, by their Concord or Dissonance with our own . . . . . . . 16-23 CH. V. Of the amiable and respectable Virtues . 23-26

SEC. II. Of the Degrees of the different Passions which are consistent with Propriety . . 26

CH. I. Of the Passions which take their Origin from the Body . . . . . . . 26-30 CH. II. Of those Passions which take their Origin from a particular Turn or Habit of the Imagination . . . . . . 30-32 CH. III. Of the unsocial Passions . . . 32-37 CH. IV. Of the social Passions . . . . 37-39 CH. V. Of the selfish Passions . . . . 39-41

SEC. III. Of the Effects of Prosperity and Adversity upon the Judgment of Mankind with regard to the Propriety of Action; and why it is more easy to obtain their Approbation in the one State than in the other . . . . . . 42

CH. I. That though our Sympathy with Sorrow is generally a more lively Sensation than our Sympathy with Joy, it commonly falls much more short of the Violence of what is naturally felt by the Person principally concerned . . 42-47 CH. II. Of the Origin of Ambition, and of the Distinction of Ranks . . . . 47-56 CH. III. Of the Corruption of our Moral Sentiments, which is occasioned by this Disposition to admire the Rich and the Great, and to despise or neglect Persons of poor and mean Condition . . 56-60