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

This is not the case with the natural virtues.

From A Treatise of Human Nature by Hume, David

And natural virtues, practised in the proper frame of mind and heart, become supernatural.

From Life of Father Hecker by Elliott, Walter

In fact, natural virtues had suddenly waxed luxuriant, and supernatural virtues were despised.

From Lord of the World by Benson, Robert Hugh

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