...201 out being helped." i Pity, to his mind, was not natural to man, and children were always cruel. "We may have uneasy sensations from seeing a creature...we have not pity unless we wish to relieve them." 2 This remark is the best possible criticism of the sentimental character. Upon the subject of savage...

...permitted. The proximity of this relationship can be readily seen when we quote Doctor Johnson, who said, "Pity is not natural to man. Children are always cruel. Savages are always cruel." The full significance of these words, which we must acknowledge as truth and therefore fact, may be...

...the belief in original sin, and virtue as the result of rigorous self-discipline. 'Pity,' he says, 'is not natural to man. Children are always cruel....Pity is acquired and improved by the cultivation of the reason.'33 On another occasion, he brings out this fact by 31 The method of reasoning on religion,...

...the belief in original sin, and virtue as the result of rigorous self-discipline. 'Pity,' he says, 'is not natural to man. Children are always cruel. Savages are always cruel. I'ity is acquired and improved by the cultivation of the reason.'33 On another occasion, he brings...

....... supped with me at these chambers. JOHNSON. "Pity is not natural to man. Children are always f cruel. Savages are always cruel. Pity is acquired...for we have not pity unless we wish to relieve them " 4 An adaptation of Pope's Universal Prayer, 37. See also Hyf. 24. against seeming to have a superiority...

...and my uncle Dr. Boswell, who happened to be no^i \tv ' supped with me at these Chambers. JOHNSON. " Pity is not natural to man. Children are always cruel....cultivation of reason. We may have uneasy sensations for seeing a creature in distress, without pity ; for we have not pity unless we wish to relieve them....

...Dr. Johnson, Mr. Dempfter, and my uncle Dr. Boswell .... tupped with me at these chambers. JOHNSON. "Pity is not natural to man. Children are always cruel....and improved by the cultivation of reason. We may bave uneasy sensations from seeing a creature in distress, without pity; for we have not pity unless...

...much given to benevolence (Voitle 52.-53). "Pity is not natural to man," Johnson declares roundly; "children are always cruel. Savages are always cruel....acquired and improved by the cultivation of reason" (Life 1 :437). Similarly, Johnson's and Hume's views on freedom and necessity are expressions of their...

...[imagination]" (370). Johnson concurs with Hume on natural malice, but not on childhood's access to pity: "Pity is not natural to man. Children are always cruel....for we have not pity unless we wish to relieve them" (Life of Johnson i :437). 4 Cicero, in a mood of Stoic anti-Aristotelianism, denounces the general...

...invented. ' Thos Sfake 2orothosiru. Pt. 1. "Discourse of the Three Metamorphoses," tr. Tille and Bo/man Pity is not natural to man. Children are always cruel....Savages are always cruel. Pity is acquired and improved hy the cuhivation of reason. [On the question whether marriage was natural] Sir, a savage man and a...