 | Benjamin Hezekiah Bissell - English language - 1925 - 262 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. Savages are always cruel. I'ity is acquired and improved by the cultivation of the reason.'33 On another occasion, he brings... | |
 | James Boswell - 1928 - 670 pages
...and my uncle Dr. Boswell, who happened to be no^i \tv ' supped with me at these Chambers. JOHNSON. " Pity is not natural to man. Children are always cruel....cultivation of reason. We may have uneasy sensations for seeing a creature in distress, without pity ; for we have not pity unless we wish to relieve them.... | |
 | James Boswell - Hypochondria - 1928 - 394 pages
...Dr. Johnson, Mr. Dempfter, and my uncle Dr. Boswell .... tupped with me at these chambers. JOHNSON. "Pity is not natural to man. Children are always cruel....and improved by the cultivation of reason. We may bave uneasy sensations from seeing a creature in distress, without pity; for we have not pity unless... | |
 | Leopold Damrosch - English prose literature - 1989 - 276 pages
...much given to benevolence (Voitle 52.-53). "Pity is not natural to man," Johnson declares roundly; "children are always cruel. Savages are always cruel....acquired and improved by the cultivation of reason" (Life 1 :437). Similarly, Johnson's and Hume's views on freedom and necessity are expressions of their... | |
 | Mary Midgley - Ethics - 2002 - 426 pages
...invented. ' Thos Sfake 2orothosiru. Pt. 1. "Discourse of the Three Metamorphoses," tr. Tille and Bo/man Pity is not natural to man. Children are always cruel....Savages are always cruel. Pity is acquired and improved hy the cuhivation of reason. [On the question whether marriage was natural] Sir, a savage man and a... | |
 | Carl Edmund Rollyson - Authors, English - 2005 - 321 pages
...my uncle Dr. Boswell, who happened to be now in London, supped with me at these Chambers. JOHNSON. "Pity is not natural to man. Children are always cruel....cultivation of reason. We may have uneasy sensations for seeing a creature in distress, without pity; for we have not pity unless we wish to relieve them.... | |
 | Mary Midgley - Philosophy, British - 2005 - 428 pages
...the table here; as men become civilized various modes of denoting honourable preference are invented. Pity is not natural to man. Children are always cruel....acquired and improved by the cultivation of reason. [On the question whether marriage was natural] Sir, a savage man and a savage woman meet by chance,... | |
 | 1791 - 668 pages
...rcafon to apprehend that he will tell many lies for himfttf?" Pity* is not natural to nan. Children arc always cruel. Savages are always cruel. Pity is acquired and improved by the cultivation of reafon. We may have uneafy fet> fations from feeing a creature in diflrcf*, without pity ; for we hav«... | |
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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. 
