by the horror of their situation, to discover of their own accord, what no human saga|city could ever have investigated. By ac|knowledging their guilt, by submitting themselves to the resentment of their of|fended citizens, and by thus satiating that vengeance of which they were sensible that they were become the proper objects, they hoped by their death to reconcile themselves, at least in their own imagination, to the natural sentiments of mankind, to be able to consider themselves as less worthy of hatred and resentment, to attone in some measure for their crimes, and, if possible, to die in peace and with the forgiveness of all their fellow-creatures. Compared to what they felt before the discovery, even the thought of this, it seems, was happi|ness.
SECT. II. In what manner our own judgments re|fer to what ought to be the judgments of others: And of the origin of general rules.
A Great part, perhaps the greatest part of human happiness and misery arises from the view of our past conduct, and from the degree of approbation or dis|approbation
