Medical inquiries and observations (Volume 2).

  • Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813.
Date:
1805
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    nity, ail institution*, destined for that distant pe- riod, has lately been founded in this city, that shall perpetuate the year 1786 in the history of Penn- sylvania. Here the feeling heart, the tearful eye, and the charitable hand, may always be connected together, and the flame of sympathy, instead of being extinguished in taxes, or expiring in a soli- tary blaze by a single contribution, may be kept alive, by constant exercise. There is a necessary connection between animal sympathy, and good morals. The priest and the Levite, in the New Testament, would probably have relieved the poor man who fell among thieves, had accident brought them near enough to his wounds. The unfortunate Mrs. Bellamy was rescued from the dreadful pur- pose of drowning herself, by nothing but the dis- tress of a child, rending the air with its cries for bread. It is probably owing, in some measure, to the connection between good morals and sympathy that the fair sex, in every age and country, have been more distinguished for virtue, than men; for how seldom do we hear of a woman, devoid of humanity ? Lastly, attraction, composition, and DE- COMPOSITION, belong to the passions as well as * ,A public dispensary.