moral sentiment, n.Definitions

Moral sentiment (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠small and delicate but social and universal: it forms the party of humankind against vice, its common enemy.

Moral sentiment (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠humanity under another name: the two obey the same laws down to the minutest point, as surely as the moon and the falling apple obey one gravity.

Moral sentiment (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the one thing a reader will not bend for a writer: we enter easily into old speculative errors, but cannot be made to love what we see is blameable.