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
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
God does not bestow a supernatural reward upon the natural gifts, or even upon the natural virtues, which are to be found among pagans as well as among Christians.
From The Happiness of Heaven By a Father of the Society of Jesus by Boudreaux, F. J.
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
They had faults, great ones if you please; at the same time they knew them to be faults, and they had the natural virtues in greater or less degrees.
From Life of Father Hecker by Elliott, Walter
