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Practical Ethics

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Object. Duty. Virtue. Reward. Temptation Vice of Defect Vice of Excess Penalty

Food and drink, Vigor, Temperance, Health, Appetite, Asceticism, Intemperance, Disease.

Dress, Comeliness, Neatness, Respectability, Vanity, Slovenliness, Fastidiousness, Contempt.

Exercise, Recreation, Cheerfulness, Energy, Excitement, Morbidness, Frivolity, Debility.

Work, Self-support, Industry, Wealth, Ease, Laziness, Overwork, Poverty.

Property, Provision, Economy, Prosperity, Indulgence, Wastefulness, Miserliness, Want.

Exchange, Equivalence, Honesty, Self-respect, Gain, Dishonesty, Compliance, Degradation.

Sex, Reproduction, Purity, Sweetness, Lust, Prudery, Sensuality, Bitterness.

Knowledge, Truth, Veracity, Confidence, Ignorance, Falsehood, Gossip, Distrust.

Time, Co-ordination, Prudence, Harmony, Dissipation, Procrastination, Anxiety, Discord.

Space, System, Orderliness, Efficiency, Disorder, Carelessness, Red Tape, Obstruction.

Fortune, Superiority, Courage, Honor, Risk, Cowardice, Gambling, Shame.

Nature, Appreciation, Sensitiveness, Inspiration, Utility, Obtuseness, Affectation, Stagnation.

Art, Beauty, Simplicity, Refinement, Luxury, Ugliness, Ostentation, Vulgarity.

Animals, Consideration, Kindness, Tenderness, Neglect, Cruelty, Subjection, Brutality.

Fellow-men, Fellowship, Love, Unity, Indifference, Selfishness, Sentimentality, Strife.

The Poor, Help, Benevolence, Sympathy, Alienation, Niggardliness, Indulgence, Antipathy.

Wrong-doers, Justice, Forgiveness, Reformation, Vengeance, Severity, Lenity, Perversity.

Friends, Devotion, Fidelity, Affection, Betrayal, Exclusiveness, Effusiveness, Isolation.

Family, Membership, Loyalty, Home, Independence, Self-sufficiency, Self-obliteration, Loneliness.

State, Organization, Patriotism, Civilization, Spoils, Treason, Ambition, Anarchy.

Society, Co-operation, Public Spirit, Freedom, Self-interest, Meanness, Officiousness, Constraint.

Self, Realization, Conscientiousness, Character, Pleasure, Unscrupulousness, Formalism, Corruption.

God, Obedience, Holiness, Life, Self-will, Sin, Hypocrisy, Death.

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