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To provide against this, ye. great Author of Nature, has taught ye. individual by particular senses what is private good, & private evil, & has by keen instincts drove him to preserve ye. former, & avoid ye. latter. But what security has ye. Omnipotent creator made for ye. Community? Who shall answer for his good behaviour to it?

Our supreme Parent has not left man to be shewn only be ye. cool notices of reason, of good or evil, ye. happiness of misery of his fellow creatures, he has made them sensible of their good happiness, but particularly of their evil & misery, by sympathy. or ye. quick feeling of pleasure & pain.

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