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Honour is built upon a Passion in Human Nature, for which there is no Name

The Author's Reasons for Coining the Word Self-liking

How the Passion of Self-liking is discovered in Infants

A Definition of Honour, and what it is in Substance

The Author's Opinion illustrated by what we know of Dishonour or Shame

The different Symptoms of Pride and Shame in the Mechanism of Man

Are both the Result of the same Passion

The Word Honour, as it signifies a Principle of Courage and Virtue, is of Gothick Extraction

All Societies of Men are perpetually in Quest after Happiness

The true Reason, why no Nations can be govern'd without Religion, enquired into

Why no one Sort or Degree of Idolatry can be more or less absurd than another

For what Purpose all Religions may be equally serviceable

All Men are born with the Fear of an invisible Cause

The Usefulness of that Fear, as to Religion

The Impossibility of making Atheism universally received

Religion no Invention of Politicians

The Benefit expected from the Notions of Honour

The Reasonableness of Mens Actions examined

How the Strictness of the Gospel came to be first disapproved of, and the Consequence

How Mens Actions may be inconsistent with their Belief

That many bad Christians were yet kept in Awe by the Fear of Shame, gave the first Handle to the Invention of Honour as a Principle

What it is we are afraid of in the Fear of Shame

Why the Principle of Honour has been of more Use to Society than that of Virtue

The Principle of Honour, clashing with Christianity

Reasons why the Church of Rome endeavour'd to reconcile them

The real Design of Legends and Romances

The Stratagems of the Church of Rome to enslave the Laity

What gave Rise to the Custom of Duelling