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Click on the phrases to see them in context. The original texts by Immanuel Kant and David Hume are available from the Gutenberg Projet.
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Twill therefore be proper, before we leave this subject, to bestow a few reflections on that passion, and shew its origin in human nature. Accordingly we find, that where, beside the general resemblance of our natures, there is any peculiar similarity in our manners, or character, or country, or language, it facilitates the sympathy. I have already observed, that the mind has a much stronger propensity to pride than to humility, and have endeavoured, from the principles of human nature, to assign a cause for this phaenomenon. The same unquestionable argument may be derived from the opinion of those, who maintain that morality is something real, essential, and founded on nature.