natural virtues

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Some Renaissance thinkers praised the Indians as innocent “noble savages” whose natural virtues mocked the vices of civilized Christians, though exaggerated accounts of Indian innocence were as unrealistic as contrasting reports of Indian savagery.

From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018

The real difference between Paganism and Christianity is perfectly summed up in the difference between the pagan, or natural, virtues, and those three virtues of Christianity which the Church of Rome calls virtues of grace.

From Heretics by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)

I mean no natural virtue, because all the natural virtues existed and had been practiced by hundreds and thousands of millions before Christ was born.

From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 7 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions by Ingersoll, Robert Green

She began the catalogue of her natural virtues.

From The Passionate Elopement by MacKenzie, Compton

This is not the case with the natural virtues.

From A Treatise of Human Nature by Hume, David