Chapter II: 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

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