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“Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food.”
 
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Joseph Butler
 
Name:   Joseph Butler
 
Nationality:   English
 
Date of Birth:   May 18, 1692
 
Date of Death:   Jun 16,  1752
 
Profession:   Clergyman
 
 
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Love of our neighbour, then, has just the same respect to, is no more distant from, self-love, than hatred of our neighbour, or than love or hatred of anything else.
 
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Man may act according to that principle or inclination which for the present happens to be strongest, and yet act in a way disproportionate to, and violate his real proper nature.
 
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Thus there is no doubt the eye was intended for us to see with.
 
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The sum of the whole is plainly this: The nature of man considered in his single capacity, and with respect only to the present world, is adapted and leads him to attain the greatest happiness he can for himself in the present world.
 
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Thus self-love as one part of human nature, and the several particular principles as the other part, are, themselves, their objects and ends, stated and shown.
 
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