Outlines of an Historical View of the Progress of the Human Mind

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. Senfations are accompanied with pleafure or pain, and man has the further faculty of converting thefe momentary impreflions into durable fentiments of a correfponding na ttlre, and of experiencing thefe fentiments either at the fight or recollection of the plea fure or pain Of beings fenfitive like himfelf. And from this faculty, united with that of forming and combining ideas, arife, between him and his fellow creatures, the ties of in tercil and duty, to which nature has aflixed the molt exquifite portion of our felicity, and the molt poignant of our fufferings.