14. Whether the rule to which, as to a touchstone, we bring our voluntary actions, to examine them by, and try their goodness, and accordingly to name them, which is, as it were, the mark of the value we set upon them: whether, I say, we take that rule from the fashion of the country, or the will of a law-maker, the mind is easily able to observe the relation any action hath to it, and to judge whether the action agrees or disagrees with the rule; and so hath a notion of moral goodness or evil, which is either conformity or not conformity of any action to that rule: and therefore is often called moral rectitude.
14. Baldin gure nahitako ekintzak berarekin, froga harri bat bailitzan, alderatzeko eta haien ontasuna egiaztatu ondoren balio marka bezalakoa den izena jartzeko erabiltzen dugun araua herrialdeko ohituretatik edo legegilearen nahitik hartzen badugu, gogamena erraz ohar daiteke edozein ekintzak arau honekin duen erlazioaz eta ekintza arauarekin ados edo desados dagoen juzga; eta horretara ongi moral edo gaizki moralaren nozioa dauka, ekintza baten arau horrekiko adostasuna edo desadostasuna besterik ez dena; eta horregatik sarri zuzentasun morala deritza.