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connected with the bodily frame in a manner so 

 closely analogous, can belong to a different 

 scheme. Who, that reads the touching instances 

 of maternal affection, related so often of the 

 women of all nations, arid of the females of all 

 animals, can doubt that the principle of action is 

 the same in the two cases, though enlightened in 

 one of them by the rational faculty? And who 

 can place in separate provinces the supporting 

 and protecting love of the father and of the 

 mother? or consider as entirely distinct from 

 these, and belonging to another part of our 

 nature, the other kinds of family affection ? or 

 disjoin man's love of his home, his clan, his tribe, 

 his country, from the affection which he bears to 

 his family ? The love of offspring, home, friends, 

 in man, is then part of the same system of con- 

 trivances of which bodily organization is another 

 part. And thus the author of our corporeal frame 

 is also the author of our capacity of kindness and 

 resentment, of our love and of our wish to be 

 loved, of all the emotions which bind us to indi- 

 viduals, to our families, and to our kind. 



It is not necessary here to follow out and 

 classify these emotions and affections ; or to 

 examine how they are combined and connected 

 with our other motives of action, mutually giving 

 and receiving strength arid direction. The desire 

 of esteem, of power, of knowledge, of society, the 

 love of kindred, of friends, of our country, are 

 manifestly among the main force!? by which man 



