Of National Characters (1748) [ Concepts ]
… rational creatures; and the same disposition, which gives us this propensity, makes us enter deeply into each other's sentiments, and causes like passions and inclinations to run, as it were, by contagion, through the whole club or knot of … has produced as great men, either for action or learning, as Greece or Italy has to boast of. It is pretended, that the sentiments of men become more delicate as the country approaches nearer to the sun; and that the taste of beauty and …
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