The Bridgewater Treatises On the Power Wisdom And Goodness of God As Manifeste
The Bridgewater Treatises On the Power Wisdom And Goodness of God As Manifeste
Francis Henry Egerton Bridgewater
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But ere we have completed our views upon this subject, we must shortly dwell on a principle of very extensive application in morals \ and which 264. AFFECTIONS WHICH CONDUCE TO itself forms a striking example of a most beauteous and beneficent adaptation in the constitution of the human mind to the needs and the wellbehig of human society. It may be thus announced, briefly and generally : — However strong the spe- cial affections of our nature may be, yet, if along with them there be but a prin...ciple of equity in the mind, then these affections, so far from con- centrating our selfish regards upon their several objects, to the disregard and injury of others, will but enhance our respect and our sympathy for the like affections in other men. 19. This may be illustrated, in the first instance, by the equity observed between man and man, in respect to the bodies which they wear — endowed, as we may suppose them to be, with equal, at least with like capacities of pain and suffering from ex- ternal violence.
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