Love is a Love of Desire; a Love that
arises from and terminates in that
insatiable Desire we have of our
own Happiness: Which methinks
is a very great Reproach to Humane
Nature, which as bad as it is, is
not uncapable of a pure and disin∣teressed
Benevolence. Had they
duly attended to what you have
writ in you Theory of Love, Part 1.
Sect. 5. They would have discern∣ed
the Falseness of their Suppositi∣on.
But though all other Argu∣ments
should fail, my own Expe∣rience
would assure me that there
is such a thing as unmixed Benevo∣lence;
for there are some Persons
in the World to whom I could
perform the highest Services,
without any the least Intuition of
Reward, or Prospect of bettering
my own Being.0
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