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 experience at the ight of an Event which does not peronally concern him? What anguih mut he not uffer at his not being able to ait the fainting Mother or the expiring Infant?

Such is the pure Motion of Nature, anterior to all manner of Reflection; uch is the Force of natural Pity, which the mot diolute Manners have as yet found it o difficult to extinguih, ince we every Day ee, in our theatrical Repreentations, thoe Men ympathize with the unfortunate and weep at their Sufferings, who, if in the Tyrant's Place, would aggravate the Torments of their Enemies. Mandeville was very enible that Men, in pite of all their Morality, would never have been better than Monters, if Nature had not given them Pity to ait Reaon: but he did not perceive that from this Quality alone