...promotes this order: "The admiration and love of order, harmony, and proportion, in whatever kind, is naturally improving to the temper, advantageous...other than the love of order and beauty in society" (i:279). Prompted by an aesthetic impulse, the benevolist recreates in society the virtue — "order...

...Concerning Virtue or Merit" he asserts that "the admiration and love of order, harmony, and proportion ... is naturally improving to the temper, advantageous...other than the love of order and beauty in society" (1:279; emphasis added). In converse fashion, Shaftesbury frequently judges morals and mores with regard...

...„THIS too is certain: that the Admiration of Love and Order, Harmonie and Proportion, in whatever kind, is naturally improving to the Temper, advantageous to social Affection, and highly assinstant to Virtue [...]. For 'tis impossible that such aDivine Order shou'd be contemplated without...

...the contemplation of the ocean's beauty." "the admiration and love of order harmony. and proportion is naturally improving to the temper. advantageous...other than the love of order and beauty in society." ( 1:279 ) "as fair as friendship" "so charming as a generous action" (2:36) "Will it not be found that...