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be applied to the other offices of domestic life. - The heart under the pressure of sorrow desires releif from the sympathising attentions of a commiserating freind, & in the moment of prosperity feels its enjoyment doubled by the congratulations of others who profess themselves interested in their welfare. This gives birth to the same good offices towards them, & nothing can tend more directly to establish this point than the consideration that all Mankind however refined in their systems expect a grateful return for their attentions, & an interchange of good offices... and altho' such motives be not uniformly present in the moment of benevolence, still the principle is fix'd in the heart. -- Thus does Self love become the source of Social Affection & private Virtue And here it must be observed in confirmation that Religion meets Man exactly on this ground. -- It exacts not a more exalted degree of Virtue than that which seeks its
