Who ever said we _ought_ to love a fine woman, or even any of these beautiful animals which please us?
Here to be affected, there is no need of the concurrence of our will.
SECTION X.
HOW FAR THE IDEA OF BEAUTY MAY BE APPLIED TO THE QUALITIES OF THE MIND.
Nor is this remark in general less applicable to the qualities of the mind.

Those virtues which cause admiration, and are of the sublimer kind, produce terror rather than love; such as fortitude, justice, wisdom, and the like.

Never was any man amiable by force of these qualities.

Those which engage our hearts, which impress us with a sense of loveliness, are the softer virtues; easiness of temper, compassion, kindness, and liberality; though certainly those latter are of less immediate and momentous concern to society, and of less dignity.

But it is for that reason that they are so amiable.