 | John Horne - 1904 - 172 pages
...Auberon Herbert. " Pity is not natural to man. Is Pity a * Natural Children are always cruel. Endowment? Savages are always cruel. Pity is acquired and improved by the cultivation of reason." — Dr. Johnson. Man, not Per- "When God said, 'Let us StUCr2teded> make man in our image,' His for... | |
 | Natural history - 1906 - 366 pages
...whispered of health and joyous energy all Photo.\ 1C. J. Lane. THE COUNTRY-SIDE. CountrySide Notes* Pity is not natural to man. Children are always cruel. Savages are always cruel. I'ity is acquired and improved by the cultivation 'of reason. — DR. JOHNSON. * * * IT is significant... | |
 | Edward Kay Robinson - Analogy (Religion) - 1906 - 240 pages
...discriminate between good and evil and feel happiness and unhappiness. ACTIONS OF ANIMALS EXPLAINED " Pity is not natural to man. Children are always cruel....acquired and improved by the cultivation of reason." — DB. JOHNSON. CHAPTER IV ACTIONS OP ANIMALS EXPLAINED Utilitarian Origin of all Emotions— The... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - Quotations, English - 1908 - 788 pages
...punished, it excites our fear. — £p. Wilson. PITY. — Pity is not natural to man. Children and re. Blessings on him who first invented ; but we have not pity unless we wish to relieve him. When I am on my way to dine with a friend, and,... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - Quotations, English - 1908 - 772 pages
...are punished, it excites our fear. — Bp. Wilson. PITY.— Pity is not natural to man. Children and savages are always cruel. Pity is acquired and improved...sensations from seeing a creature in distress, without pity ; but we have not pity unless we wish to relieve him. When I am on my way to dine with a friend, and,... | |
 | Edward Day Page - Business ethics - 1914 - 318 pages
...to do anything which is likely to injure that other person. And yet, as Dr. Johnson has observed, it is not natural to man. Children are always cruel. Savages are always cruel. We may have uneasy sensations for seeing a creature in distress without pity; for we have not pity... | |
 | Anthropology - 1918 - 736 pages
...to do anything which is likely to injure that other person. And yet, as Dr. Johnson has observed, it is not natural to man. Children are always cruel. Savages are always cruel. We may have uneasy sensations for seeing a creature in distress without pity; for we have not pity... | |
 | Comparative law - 1918 - 746 pages
...to do anything which is likely to injure that other person. And yet, as Dr. Johnson has observed, it is not natural to man. Children are always cruel. Savages are always cruel. We may have uneasy sensations for seeing a creature in distress without pity ; for we have not pity... | |
 | David Nicholas Schaffer - Endocrine glands - 1924 - 400 pages
...permitted. The proximity of this relationship can be readily seen when we quote Doctor Johnson, who said, "Pity is not natural to man. Children are always cruel. Savages are always cruel." The full significance of these words, which we must acknowledge as truth and therefore fact, may be... | |
 | Benjamin Hezekiah Bissell - English literature - 1925 - 256 pages
...the belief in original sin, and virtue as the result of rigorous self-discipline. 'Pity,' he says, 'is not natural to man. Children are always cruel....Pity is acquired and improved by the cultivation of the reason.'33 On another occasion, he brings out this fact by 31 The method of reasoning on religion,... | |
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Pity is not natural to man. Children are always cruel. Savages are always cruel. Pity is acquired and improved by the cultivation of reason. 
