Outlines of an Historical View of the Progress of the Human Mind

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Excerpt from Outlines of an Historical View of the Progress of the Human Mind: Being a Posthumous Work of the Late M. De CondorcetSenfations are accompanied with pleafure or pain, and man has the further faculty of converting thefe momentary impre¿ions into durable fentiments of a correfponding na ttlre, and of experiencing thefe fentiments either at the fight or recollection of the plea fure or pain Of beings fenfitivé like himfelf. And from this faculty, united with that of forming and combining ideas, arife, between him and his fellow creatures, the ties of in tercil and duty, to which nature has a¿ixed the molt exquifite portion of our felicity, and the molt poignant of our fufferings.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.