Rural Philosophy Or Reflections On Knowledge Virtue And Happiness Chiefly I
Rural Philosophy Or Reflections On Knowledge Virtue And Happiness Chiefly I
Ely Bates
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122 Retirement a Refuge to Virtue. [PART n* Hence, if in the mass of human opinions there is less truth than error, and less pu- rity than depravity in the mass of human passions ; and if, further, these passions and opinions, by engaging men in an eager pursuit of the same objects, convert public life into a scene of vehement com- petition; (and that all this is the fact, I sup- pose no attentive and impartial observer will deny ;) it follows, that the general impression of the world must be u...nfavour- able to truth and virtue; and that retire- ment, so far as it tends to weaken this im- pression, is an object of importance to all, and especially to persons of a yielding and infirm character; those, I mean, who, from a facility of disposition or unfixedness of principle, are very liable to be ensnared by false compliances, or, from a weak and irritable habit, to be discouraged at the least ^difficulty, exasperated at every ap- pearance of opposition, and wounded be- fore they are stricken.
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