THOSE systems which make sentiment the principle of approbation may be divided into two different classes.
I. According to some the principle of ap|probation is founded upon a sentiment of a peculiar nature, upon a particular power of perception exerted by the mind at the view of certain actions or affections; some of which affecting this faculty in an agreeable and others in a disagreeable manner, the first are stampt with the characters of right, laudable, and virtuous; the last with those of wrong, blameable and vitious. This sentiment be|ing of a peculiar nature distinct from every other, and the effect of a particular power of perception, they give it a particular name, and call it a moral sense.
II. According to others, in order to ac|count for the principle of approbation, there is no occasion for supposing any new power of perception which had never been heard of
