Section II First Truths in the Science of the Moral Feelings
| Analogy between First Truths, or Intuitive Principles of Belief, in Intellectual, and in Moral Science | 11 |
| Classification of First Truths in Moral Science, as impressions arising out of each other, by an obvious chain of relations | 16 |
| 1. Perception of the nature and quality of actions, as just or unjust,—right or wrong;—and a conviction of duties which a man owes to other men. | |
| 2. Conviction of the existence and attributes of a Great First Cause, and Moral Governor. | |
| 3. Conviction of Moral Responsibility. | |
| 4. Impression of Future Existence. | |
| Importance of these convictions, as intuitive articles of belief | 18 |