… to be properly practised' (Müller 210). While Shaftesbury limited such polite conversations to the ' Liberty of the Club , and of that sort of Freedom which is taken amongst Gentlemen and Friends ' ( Sensus Communis, 36 [1.48]), he also … affections, Shaftesbury even aspires to a stable social order that extends from one’s immediate relations, to the 'club', the nation, and finally to all of humanity: 'To love the Publick, to study universal Good, and to promote the …