Now Chemistry makes a young man associate these feelings with inanimate objects – & that without any moral revulsion, but on the contrary with complete self-approbation – and his distant views of Benevolence or his sense of immediate beneficence attach themselves either to Man as the whole human race, or to man, as a sick man, or a painter, as a manufacturer etc., and in no way to man as a Husband, Son, Brother, Daughter, Wife, Friend, &c. &c.
