Rational Self-Love; Or, a Philosophical And Moral Essay On the Natural Principles of Happiness ...
Rational Self-Love; Or, a Philosophical And Moral Essay On the Natural Principles of Happiness ...
Laurence Nihell
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Love of the public good. In the firft place ; what is that tender ientiment, which niakes fo fine a figure in poetry, romance^ and the fublimer flights of Platonic enthufiafm ?— Hobbes fays, *'It is ** the love of one Angularly, with defire of •' hting fingularly beloved/' Rochefoucault is more circumftantial : ** In the foul, fays ^* he, it is a defire to reign ; in the mnd, " it is fympathy -, and in bodies, it is only a '* fecret inclination to enjoy what one loves, ** after many difiicultie...s." Sentiments all founded oa the immediate love of felf ; and indeed fo ftrong and powerful in their nature, that the Creator has thought proper 78 RATIONAL to reft the great objeft of the propagatioft of the iuman, as well as of every other //i;/»^: fpecieSy on this foundation. Parental affeBion is equally the child of* Self-love. — It flows more Ipontaneous to the mother's breaft, than even thofe milky and vital ft reams, which (he imparts fo fondly to her babe. The more the dear babe approaches to a likenefs with the pa- rent, the more cheriftied and carefled.
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