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

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

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

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