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Natural philosophers call this direction or tendency, SELF-GRAVITATION: NEWTON calls it INERT FORCE: moralists denominate it in man, SELF-LOVE which is nothing more than the tendency he has to preserve himself a desire of happiness a love of his own welfare a wish for pleasure a promptitude in seizing on every thing that appears favourable to his conservation a marked aversion to all that either disturbs his happiness, or menaces his existence primitive sentiments, that are common to all beings of the human species; which all their faculties are continually striving to satisfy; which all their passions, their wills, their actions, have eternally for their object and their end.
Every thing he does every thing that passes within himself his concealed motion his visible action, are the effects of inert force of self-gravitation the attractive or repulsive powers contained in his machine of the tendency he has, in common with other beings, to his own individual preservation; in short, of that energy which is the common property of every being he beholds.
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