Morals excite passions, and produce or prevent actions. Reason of itself is utterly impotent in this particular. The rules of morality, therefore, are not conclusions of our reason.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Morals excite passions, and produce or prevent actions. Reason of itself is utterly impotent in this particular. The rules of morality, therefore, are not conclusions of our reason." in the context of "Part 1, Section 1" to mean that wisdom is timeless.