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)

As glory does not destroy our nature, neither does it destroy our natural virtues, but perfects them.

From The Happiness of Heaven By a Father of the Society of Jesus by Boudreaux, F. J.

Having laid down in broad terms the fundamental doctrine of the supernatural life, it is proper to say a word of the natural virtues and of their relation to the supernatural.

From Life of Father Hecker by Elliott, Walter

He may indeed practise some natural virtues, but these virtues are in general only exterior.

From Public School Education by Müller, Michael