8. By which morality also may he made clearer.
This gave me the confidence to advance that conjecture, which I
suggest, (chap. iii.) viz., that morality is capable of demonstration as well as mathematics. For the ideas that ethics
are conversant about, being all real essences, and such as I imagine have a discoverable connexion and agreement
one with another; so far as we can find their habitudes and relations, so far we shall be possessed of certain, real,
and general truths; and I doubt not but, if a right method were taken, a great part of morality might be made out
with that clearness, that could leave, to a considering man, no more reason to doubt, than he could have to doubt
of the truth of propositions in mathematics, which have been demonstrated to him.
