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Chapter LVII: Book III: considers RELATIVE DUTIES. There are three classes of these

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First, Relative Duties that are _Determinate_, meaning all those that are strictly defined and enforced; those growing out of Promises, Contracts, Oaths, and Subscriptions to Articles of Religion. Secondly, Relative Duties that are _Indeterminate_, as Charity, in its various aspects of treatment of dependents, assistance to the needy, &c.; the checks on Anger and Revenge; Gratitude, &c. Thirdly, the Relative Duties growing _out of the Sexes_.

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Moral Science; a Compendium of EthicsChapter LVII: Book III: considers RELATIVE DUTIES. There are three classes of these

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