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sexes, which answers the purposes of pro- 

 pagation ; and that more general society 

 which wc have with men and with animals, 

 and which we may in some sort be said to 

 have wjth the inanimate world. The object 

 of the mixed passion, which we call love, is 

 the beauty of the sex. Men are carried to 

 the sex in general, as it is the sex, and by 

 the common law of nature ; but they are 

 attached to particulars by personal beauty. 

 I call beauty (Mr. Burke then adds,) a so- 

 cial quality ; for where women and men, 

 and not only they, but when other animals, 

 give us a sense of joy and pleasure in be- 

 holding them, (and there are many that do 

 so) they inspire us with sentiments of ten- 

 derness and affection towards their persons : 

 we like to have them near us, and we enter 

 willingly into a kind of relation with them, 

 unless we should have strong reasons to the 

 contrary. This very just and natural dis- 

 tinction between the mixed passion of love 

 which relates to the sex, and that perfectly 

 unmixed love and tenderness which is uni- 

 versally the effect of beauty, must be con- 



