It was against this theory that Plato wrote his _Republic_, and, to
compare a little thing to a great, the whole account of moral good
being in consonance with nature, and of moral obligation rising out of
the nature of the individual man, as has been set forth in this brief
Text-book, may serve for a refutation of the perverse doctrine of
Utilitarianism.

_Readings_.--Plato, _Republic_, pp. 338 E, 339 A, 343 C, D, E, 344 A,
B, C, 358 E, 359 A, B, 580 B, C.


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PART III. NATURAL LAW.


We assume in Natural Law the preceding treatise on Ethics, and also
the principal truths of Natural Theology.



CHAPTER I.

OF DUTIES OF GOD.

SECTION I.--_Of the Worship of God_.