A Discourse Upon the Origin and the Foundation of the Inequality Among Mankind, by Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Part I.
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The Importance of Complimentation
Natural pity is the force of nature anterior to all manner of reflection. Even benevolence and friendship, if we judge right, will appear the effects of a constant pity fixed upon a particular object. The end of ill was very sensible that men in spite of all their morality would never have been better than monsters if nature had not given them pity to assist reason. But he did not perceive that from this quality alone flow all the social virtues which he would dispute mankind the possession of.
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