Mind is capable of forming between theſe two Principles, without there being the leaſt Neceſſity for adding to them that of Sociability, that, in my Opinion, flow all the Rules of natural Right; Rules, which Reaſon is afterwards obliged to re-eſtabliſh upon other Foundations, when by a gradual Exertion of its own Powers it has at laſt ſtifled the Authority of Nature.
By proceeding in this Manner, we free ourſelves from the Neceſſity of making a Man a Philoſopher, in order to make a Man of him; his Obligations are not dictated to him merely by the ſlow Voice of Wiſdom; and as long as he does not reſiſt the interior Impulſes of Compaſſion, he never will do any harm to another Man, nor even to any other ſenſible Being, except in thoſe lawful Caſes where his own Preſervation happens to come in queſtion, and it is of courſe his Duty to
