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

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

From Life of Father Hecker by Elliott, Walter

That many of the natural virtues have this tendency to the good of society, no one can doubt of.

From A Treatise of Human Nature by Hume, David

Its works of righteousness, however, are often uncalled-for exaggerations of natural virtues, such as counting sacred all forms of animal and vegetable life.

From A Tour of the Missions Observations and Conclusions by Strong, Augustus Hopkins

But natural virtues are not habits, but powers.

From Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint