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PART I.
Of the Propriety of Action.
Conſiſting of three Sections.
SECTION I.
Of the Sense of Propriety.
CHAP. I.
Of Sympathy.
HOW ſelfiſh ſoever man may be ſuppoſed, there are evidently ſome principles in his nature, which intereſt him in the fortune of others, and render their happineſs neceſſary to him, though he derives nothing it except the pleaſure of ſeeing it. Of this kind is pity or compaſſion, the emotion which we feel for the miſery of others,
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