Love is a movement of the heart, which is governed and directed by the laws of our nature, to those whom we think worthy of it, and to those only.
Charity, considered as general benevolence of disposition, is virtuous and necessary.

It is nothing more than a feeling which interests us in favour of our fellow beings.

But how is this feeling consistent with the peculiar doctrines of the gospel?
According to its maxims, it is a crime to offer God a heart, whoso affections are shared by terrestrial objects.

And besides, does not experience show, that devotees obliged by principle to hate themselves, are little disposed to give better treatment to others?
We should not be surprised that maxims, originating with enthusiasm, should aim at, and have the effect of, driving man out of himself.

In the delirium of its enthusiasm, this religion forbids a man to love himself.