, is that which produces the same effects. The lines of
action, though drawn from different parts, terminate in the same point.
Religion embraces virtue as it is enjoined by the laws of God: Honour,
as it is graceful and ornamental to human nature.

5. 'The religious man _fears_, the man of honor _scorns_ to do an ill
action. The former considers vice as something that is beneath him, the
other as something that is offensive to the Divine Being. The one as
what is _unbecoming_, the other as what _forbidden_. Thus _Seneca_
speaks in the natural and genuine language of a man of honor, when he
declares that were there no God to see or punish vice, he would not
commit it, because it is of so mean, so base, and so vile a nature.

6. 'I shall conclude this head with the description of honor in the part
of young _Juba_.

Honour's a sacred tie, the law of kings,
The noble mind's distinguishing perfection,
That aids and strengthens virtue where it meets her,
And imitates her actions where she is not.
It ought not to be sported with.-- CATO.

7. 'In the second place we are to consider those who have mistaken
notions of honor, and these are such as establish any thing to
themselves for a point of honor which is contrary either to the laws of
God, or of their country; who think it is more honourable to revenge
than to forgive an injury; who make no scruple of telling a lie, but
would put any man to death that accuses them of it: who are more careful
to guard their reputation by their courage than by their virtue.

8. 'True fortitude is indeed so becoming in human nature, that he who
wants it scarce deserves the name of a man; but we find several who so
much abuse this notion that they place the whole idea of honor in a kind
of brutal courage; by which means we have had many among us who have
called themselves men of honour, that would have been a disgrace to a
gibbet.

9. In a word, the man who sacrifices any duty of a reasonable creature
to a prevailing mode of fashion, who looks upon any thing as honourable
that is displeasing to his Maker, or destructive to society, who thinks
himself obliged by this principle to the practice of some virtues and
not of others, is by no means to be reckoned among true men of honor.

10. _Timogenes_ was a lively instance of one actuated by false honor.
_Timogenes_ would smile at a man's jest who ridiculed his Maker, and at
the same time run a man