principle of reflection or conscience as respecting each of them, it
is as manifest that WE WERE MADE FOR SOCIETY, AND TO PROMOTE THE
HAPPINESS OF IT, AS THAT WE WERE INTENDED to TAKE CARE OF OUR OWN
LIFE AND HEALTH AND PRIVATE GOOD.

And from this whole review must be given a different draught of
human nature from what we are often presented with. Mankind are by
nature so closely united, there is such a correspondence between the
inward sensations of one man and those of another, that disgrace is
as much avoided as bodily pain, and to be the object of esteem and
love as much desired as any external goods; and in many particular
cases persons are carried on to do good to others, as the end their
affection tends to and rests in; and manifest that they find real
satisfaction and enjoyment in this course of behaviour. There is
such a natural principle of attraction in man towards man that
having trod the same tract of land, having breathed in the same
climate, barely having been born in the same artificial district or
division, becomes the occasion of contracting acquaintances and
familiarities many years after; for anything may serve the purpose.
Thus relations merely nominal are sought and invented, not by
governors, but by the lowest of the people, which are found
sufficient to hold mankind together in little fraternities and
copartnerships: weak ties indeed, and what may afford fund enough
for ridicule, if they are absurdly considered as the real principles
of that union: but they are in truth merely the occasions, as
anything may be of anything, upon which our nature carries us on
according to its own previous bent and bias; which occasions
therefore would be nothing at all were there not this prior
disposition and bias of nature. Men are so much one body that in a
peculiar manner they feel for each other shame, sudden danger,