Ebook Outlines of an Historical View of the Progress of the Human Mind

Senfations are accompanied with pleafure or pain, and man has the further faculty of converting thefe momentary impre?ions into durable fentiments of a correfponding na ttlre, and of experiencing thefe fentiments either at the fight or recollection of the plea fure or pain Of beings fenfitivé like himfelf. And from this faculty, united with that of forming and combining ideas, arife, between him and his fellow creatures, the ties of in tercil and duty, to which nature has a?ixed the molt exquifite portion of our felicity, and the molt poignant of our fufferings.