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an active & enduring benevolence is the best mark of sensibility, & if the justness of this principle he properly felt, it will produce the best Effects--Every human mind is gifted by nature with a power of resistance; & Every Exertion of [[underline]] that [[/underline]] power gives it additional strength;--The person whose nerves to day (from habitual languor) wd he disordered by the most trifling disaster would if due Exertion were made, be able to morrow to sustain an Equal shock with greater firmness, & when the stimulus of benevolence is added
