The attainments of the parent do not descend in the blood of his children, nor is the progress of man to be considered as a physical mutation of the species.

Love is an affection which carries the attention of the mind beyond itself, and is the sense of a relation to some fellow creature as to its object.

Mankind have always wandered or settled, agreed or quarrelled, in troops and companies.

We are fond of distinctions; we place ourselves in opposition, and quarrel under the denominations of faction and party, without any material subject of contro…