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

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

Here Finn and his companions are explicitly pronounced to be saved by their natural virtues, and the relations of the Church and the Fenian warriors are most friendly.

From The High Deeds of Finn and other Bardic Romances of Ancient Ireland by Reid, Stephen

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

This is not the case with the natural virtues.

From A Treatise of Human Nature by Hume, David