 Second, in conformity with his general sentimentalism in ethics, he is acutely aware that his political position ultimately rests on moral sentiments—his own and, for its success, other people’s as well. For example, in the 10th Collection of the Letters for the Advancement he emphasizes that people’s moral “dispositions” or “feelings” play a fundamental role as essential supports for his political position’s realization. This standpoint absolves him of the need to do certain sorts of theorizing—not only precluding any need for cognitivist groundings of the moral intuitions in question, but also promising short, effective solutions to various problems that would no doubt look like real brain-teasers to a cognitivist. However, it also leads him to engage in theorizing of another sort, namely, theorizing about the ways in which, and the causal means by which, people’s moral sentiments should be molded in order to realize the ideals of his political position. His discussion of moral “dispositions” in the 10th Collection is an example of such theorizing—concerning the ways in which, rather than the causal means by which. Some of his extensive theorizing about causal means (education, exemplary individuals, laws, literature, and so on) has already been discussed earlier in this article.