before: nature, they imagine, acts here, as in all other cases, with the strictest oeconomy, and produces a multitude of effects from one and the same cause; and sympathy, a power which has always been taken notice of, and with which the mind is manifestly endowed, is, they think, sufficient to account for all the effects ascribed to this peculiar faculty.
I. Dr. Hutcheson * 1.1 had been at great pains to prove that the principle of approbation was not founded on self-love. He had de|monstrated too that it could not arise from any operation of reason. Nothing remained, ••he thought, but to suppose it a faculty of a peculiar kind, with which nature had endow|ed the human mind, in order to produce this one particular and important effect. When self-love and reason were both excluded, it did not occur to him that there was any other known faculty of the mind which could in any respect answer this purpose.
This new power of perception he called a moral sense, and supposed it to be somewhat analogous to the external senses. As the bodies around us by affecting these in a cer|••ain manner appear to possess the different qualities of sound, taste, odour, colour; so
