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 bodies they assume have not the natural virtues which they show, nor the operations of life, but those which are common to inanimate things.

From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 by Disraeli, Isaac

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

In such antecedents and surroundings it is easy to see the source of that abiding confidence in human nature, and that love for the natural virtues which marked Father Hecker's whole career.

From Life of Father Hecker by Elliott, Walter

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