An Essay on Friendship, 1726 [ Concepts ]
… designs would no longer be the plague of human society, but truth and innocence, good-nature and bounty, would reign without check or controul. Then would this earth become a paradise, as beautiful in a moral as natural view ; and all the … little else but discord and confusion ; and were it not for human laws, it would be safer for us to live in a forest with bears and tygers, than among rational beings. It must be confessed, indeed, that we may meet with many persons, who will take all imaginable pains to possess us with a raised notion of their kindness and …
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