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This is the case with good nature, good humour, facility, generosity, beauty, and many other qualities. We consider him with all his relations in society; and love or hate him, according as he affects those, who have any immediate intercourse with him. It is contrary to the interest of civil society, that men should have an entire liberty of indulging their appetites in venereal enjoyment: But as this interest is weaker than in the case of the female sex, the moral obligation, arising from it, must be proportionably weaker.