The sentiment of sympathy, or fellow-feeling, wrote David Hume, must be acknowledged as a “principle in human nature beyond which we cannot hope to find any principle more general.”
It is through this human capacity that “we frequently bestow praise on virtuous actions, performed in very distant ages and remote countries; where the utmost subtilty of imagination would not discover any appearance of self-interest, or find any connection of our present happiness and security with events so widely separated from us."
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