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1825 Feb. 25
Deontology private; or
§Progress of Sympathy
Sympathy to the amt. the whole one of buys — not
and a source of pleasure: is amount of the of knowing for
suffering. This is the perfection of moral virtue: add intellectual
pleasing itself in
the same state upon
how the perfection of human nature in respect of usefulness to self and
others.
Progress of Sympathy.
Perhaps there never existed any human being who
had reached full age without having ever experienced the
sense of sympathy: of pleasure at the perception or idea
of anothers pleasure — of uneasiness pain at the perception
or idea of anothers suffering. In early years at
least at any rate such a sense must have passed out: howsoever
afterwards extinguished
In a civilised state of society; so secure to be
to no inconsiderable extent imfused within the circle of the
family of which the individual forms a part: that family
being as it were in a state of with all others: or
at any rate to the purpose of depredation
In other instances it itself to the member
of the same class whatsoever be the principle of unity in
the class: to persons of the same neighbourhood, harbouring
the same opinions, the . One might even
the same self-regarding interests: for commonness of interest
though it be but self-regarding interest is a source of
sympathy
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