home to our own breasts the situation of those principally concerned, we feel our|selves naturally transported towards the man who could act with such proper and noble beneficence.
2. In the same manner as our sense of the impropriety of conduct arises from a want of sympathy, or from a direct anti|pathy to the affections and motives of the agent, so our sense of its demerit arises from what I shall here too call an indirect sym|pathy with the resentment of the sufferer.
As we cannot indeed enter into the resentment of the sufferer, unless our heart before-hand disapproves the motives of the agent, and renounces all fellow-feeling with them; so upon this account the ••ense of demerit, as well as that of merit, ••eems to be a compounded sentiment, and ••o be made up of two distinct emotions; •• direct antipathy to the sentiments of the ••gent, and an indirect sympathy with the ••esentment of the sufferer.
We may here too, upon many different ••ccasions, plainly distinguish those two ••ifferent emotions combining and uniting ••ogether in our sense of the ill desert of a ••articular character or action. When we
