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Our sense of right & wrong will shew yt. it is our duty, & reason, & experience yt. it is our interest to promote ye. happiness of others; but these would ^ addition underline some times /underline /addition prove insufficient in cases of danger, & in ye . constant hurry yt. ye. private passion involve us into, if we were not assisted by those kind affections, which mark out our particular duties, & with an agreable violence fix us down to them.

It is therefore evident yt. ye. private & publick passions, are intended to limit each othere influence, & so keep ye. exact ballance. In general pain which accompanies hunger & thirst, & ye. other private deletion passions /deletion addition appetites /addition, or to great fatigues either of deletion body /deletion addition mind /addition or deletion mind /deletion addition body /addition prevent us from ye. excess of thinking deletion other /deletion addition in ye /addition search of truth, * from violent application of any kind. deletion unclear /deletion addition on ye. Other hand, /addition perception, love of Action, of truth, honour, Publick virtue & c. are wisely plac'd in ye. opposite scale, to prevent us from debasing ye. dignity of man, below ye condition of Brutes. So yt. by this reaction of ye. powers, ye. bad affects are deletion pro /deletion addition avoided /addition yt. would arise if they acted singly, & ye. good effects of each are produc'd.

ye. same opposition appears in ye. counterworkings of particular private & publick affections against each other; this compassion is to set bounds to resentment; & resentment of injuries to ourselves of Friends who are unclear than ourselves, prevents efeminate compassion, & makes us despise labour or death. Natural Affection, Friendship, love for one's country, or zeal for any particular virtue, often master ye. Selfish Passions. On ye. other hand if we had no Self love, ye. instincts of ye. human heart, would discent into most torturing anxiety, & downright Frenzy.