is ready to adopt and sympathise with. To us, surely, that action must appear to deserve reward, which every body who knows of it would wish to reward, and therefore delights to see rewarded: and that action must as surely appear to deserve pu|nishment, which every body who hears of it is angry with, and upon that account re|joices to see punished.
1. As we sympathize with the joy of our companions when in prosperity, so we join with them in the complacency and sa|tisfaction with which they naturally regard whatever is the cause of their good for|tune. We enter into the love and affec|tion which they conceive for it, and begin to love it too. We should be sorry for their sakes if it was destroyed, or even if it was placed at too great a distance from them, and out of the reach of their care and protection, tho' they should lose no|thing by its absence except the pleasure of seeing it. If it is man who has thus been the fortunate instrument of the happiness of his brethren, this is still more peculiarly the case. When we see one man assisted, pro|tected, relieved by another, our sympathy with the joy of the person who receives the
