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 to Man to moderate, on certain Occaions, the blind and impetuous Sallies of Self-love, or the Deire of Self-preervation previous to the Appearance of that Paion, (15) allays the Ardour, with which he naturally purues his private Welfare, by an innate Abhorrence to ee Beings uffer that reemble him. I hall not urely be contradicted, in granting to Man the only natural Virtue, which the mot paionate Detractor of human Virtues could not deny him, I mean that of Pity, a Dipoition uitable to Creatures weak as we are, and liable to o many Evils; a Virtue o much the more univeral, and withal ueful to Man, as it takes place in him of all manner of Reflection; and o natural, that the Beats themelves ometimes give evident Signs of it. Not to peak of the Tendernes of Mothers for their Young; and of the Dangers they face to creen them from Danger; with what Reluctance are Hores known to