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servation. Man also is born with instincts, but 

 they are few in number compared with those of the 

 lower animals, and unless cultivated and improved 

 by reason and education, would, of themselves, 

 produce but inconsiderable results. That of which 

 the effects are most conspicuous, and which is the 

 foundation of all that is noble and exalted in our 

 nature, is the instinct of Sympathy, The affections 

 of the lower animals, even between individuals of 

 the same species, are observable only in a few in- 

 stances ; for in general they are indifferent to each 

 other's joys or sufferings, and regardless of the 

 treatment experienced by their companions. The 

 attachment, indeed, of the mother to her offspring, 

 as long as its wants and feebleness require her aid 

 and protection, is as powerful in the lower animals, 

 as in the human species ; but its duration, in the 

 former case, is confined, even in the most social 

 tribes, to the period of helplessness ; and the ani- 

 mal instinct is not succeeded, as in man, by the 

 continued intercourse of affection and kind offices, 

 and those endearing relations of kindred, which 

 are the sources of the purest happiness of human 

 life. 



While Nature has apparently frowned on the 

 birth of man, and brought him into the world weak, 

 naked, and defenceless, unprovided with the means 

 of subsistence, and exposed on every side to de- 

 struction, she has in reality implanted in him the 

 germ of future greatness. The helplessness of the 

 infant calls forth the fostering care and tenderest 

 affections of the mother, and lays the deep foun- 

 dations of the social union. The latent energies 

 of his mind and body are successively, though 



