The Grecians, from distrust of Grecian justice, appealed to foreign
judicatures, 189. In a similar manner, philosophers, instead of
appeals to human nature, have appealed to brute affection, 189.
Absurdity of such an appeal, 189. Brutes, having no reason, follow
blindly and implicitly the guidance of Nature, 190. All brutes love
their offspring, toiling and suffering for their good, 190, 191.
Let them herein be our examples, 192. Some pretend that among human
beings disinterested affection does not exist, 192. This assertion
is not true, 193. Nature has so ordered the circumstances in which
man comes into being, as to necessitate the existence of a strong and
tender love on the part of the mother, 193, 194. Parents do not love
their children in the hope of benefit to be derived from them, 195.
Nor from the desire of having heirs to their estates, 196. A rich
man without heirs has many friends; and children, when born to him,
do not augment his power, 196. Natural affection may be obscured and
hindered by vice; but this disproves not its existence, 197.