tator experience at the ſight of an Event which does not perſonally concern him? What anguiſh muſt he not ſuffer at his not being able to aſſiſt the fainting Mother or the expiring Infant?
Such is the pure Motion of Nature, anterior to all manner of Reflection; ſuch is the Force of natural Pity, which the moſt diſſolute Manners have as yet found it ſo difficult to extinguiſh, ſince we every Day ſee, in our theatrical Repreſentations, thoſe Men ſympathize with the unfortunate and weep at their Sufferings, who, if in the Tyrant's Place, would aggravate the Torments of their Enemies. Mandeville was very ſenſible that Men, in ſpite of all their Morality, would never have been better than Monſters, if Nature had not given them Pity to aſſiſt Reaſon: but he did not perceive that from this Quality alone
