Two dissertations, I. Concerning the end for which God created the world. II. The…

ANOTHER sort of affections, which may be properly referred to self-love, as its source, and which might be expected to be the fruit of it, according to the general analogy of nature's laws, is affections to such as are near to us by the ties of nature; that we look upon as those whose Beings we have been the occasions of, and that we have a very peculiar propriety in, and whose circumstances, even from the first beginning of their existence, do many ways lead them, as it were necessarily, to an high esteem of us, and to treat us with great dependence, submission and compliance; and whom the constitution of the world makes to be united in interest, and accordingly to act as one in innumerable affairs, with a communion in each other's affections, desires, cares, friendships, enmities, and pursuits. Which is the case of men's affection to their children.—And in like manner self-love will also beget in a man some degree of affections towards others, with whom he has connection in any degree parallel.—As to the opinion of ⟨p. 155⟩those that ascribe the natural affection there is between parents and children, to a particular instinct of nature, I shall take notice of it afterwards.

ANOTHER sort of affections, which may be properly refer'd to self-love, as its source, and which might be expected to be the fruit of it, according to the general analogy of nature's laws, is affections to such as are near to us by the ties of nature; that we look upon as those whose Beings we have been the occasions of, and that we have a very peculiar propriety in, and whose circumstances, even from the first beginning of their existence, do many ways lead them, as it were necessarily, to an high esteem of us, and to treat us with great dependence, submission and compliance; and whom the constitution of the world makes to be united in interest, and accordingly to act as one in innumerable affairs, with a communion in each other's affections, desires, cares, friendships, enmities, and pursuits. Which is the case of men's affection to their children.—And in like manner self-love will also beget in a man some degree of affections towards others, with whom he has connection in any degree parallel.—As to the opinion of ⟨p. 155⟩those that ascribe the natural affection there is between parents and children, to a particular instinct of nature, I shall take notice of it afterwards.