Excerpt from On the Importance and Means of Cultivating the Social Affections Among Pupils: Delivered Before the American Institute of Instruction at Its Annual Meeting, Boston, August 1835
Desire of society is us truly a part of our natures, as the dread of anguish or the love of life. This simple original desire, finds its gratification in the exercise of those natural affections, which interest us in the welfare of our kindred, our friends, our acquaintance, and our race; and, together with these affections, it forms that complex class of emotions, which we call the social feelings; and these, again, being constantly excited by the circumstances and relations of life, grow into a permanent habit, and become the all-pervading, master-feeling of the soul. All other passions and powers of the mind are subsidiary to this, and the entire universe is built in that manner which is best adapted to cherish these feelings, and bring them to perfection. We may, then, infer the high worth of the social affections,
I. 1. From the estimation in which God holds them. This we may learn by viewing His works, in the same way that we get at a man's opinion on a given subject, by examining his conduct. For it cannot for a moment be supposed, that the Creator would have made the whole range of objects in nature co-operate together in the production of a set of feelings which were not designed to answer important purposes in the system of things.
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