Of the social passions
摘要
As it is a divided sympathy which renders the whole set of [unsocial] passions [hatred, anger, andResentment resentmentSympathywith resentment] …so ungraceful and disagreeable; so there is another set opposite to these which a redoubled sympathy renders almost always peculiarly agreeable and becoming. GenerosityGenerosity, humanitySympathyand humanity, kindnessGenerosityhumanity, compassion, mutual friendship and esteem, all the social and benevolent affections, when expressed in the countenance or behaviour, even towards those who are not peculiarly connected with ourselves, please the indifferent spectator upon almost every occasion.