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[24][Greek:--] is here used in its most extensive sense,

[Greek:--] would be its chief Instrument.

[25] The faculty concerned with which is [Greek:--].

[26] In every branch of Moral Action in which Practical Wisdom is

employed there will be general principles, and the application of

them, but in some branches there are distinct names appropriated

to the operations of Practical Wisdom, in others there are not.

Thus Practical Wisdom, when employed on the general principles of

Civil Government, is called Legislation, as administering its

particular functions it is called simply Government. In Domestic

Management, there are of course general Rules, and also the

particular application of them; but here the faculty is called

only by one name. So too when Self-Interest is the object of

Practical Wisdom.

[27] [Greek:--], "our mere Operatives in Public business."

(Chalmers.)