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Query IV - George Turnbull, The Principles of Moral and Christian Philosophy. Vol. 2: Christian Philosophy [1740]

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The Principles of Moral and Christian Philosophy. Vol. 2: Christian Philosophy, ed. and with an Introduction by Alexander Broadie (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2005).

Part of: The Principles of Moral and Christian Philosophy, 2 vols.

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Query IV

Whether the augmentation of all our affections, appetites and powers by exercise, be not one of the best laws that can be imagined with respect to improvement? Whether any other method of augmentation would have such good or agreeable effects? Now these questions being premised about our constitution in general, let me ask in the next place,