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

Perhaps Father Hecker's antipathy to Calvinism sharpened his zeal for the natural virtues, and strengthened his advocacy of human innocence.

From Life of Father Hecker by Elliott, Walter

They had faults, great ones if you please; at the same time they knew them to be faults, and they had the natural virtues in greater or less degrees.

From Life of Father Hecker by Elliott, Walter

This is not the case with the natural virtues.

From A Treatise of Human Nature by Hume, David

When the cinnabar has given up its quicksilver, and thus lost the natural virtues that it previously had, it becomes soft in quality and its powers are feeble.

From The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio