In universal nature there is nothing that does not confirm the fact that without love, and thence without many helping one another-thus without the kind of society in which the individuals regard the common good and not themselves-nothing can exist. How many muscles, and thousands if not myriads of motor tissues and resulting powers conspire to one action of the body! Each motor tissue performs its own duty in harmony and is directed toward the common good, and thus in concert with thousands of others looks to the one thing, the common action, and to this it is directed, not to itself-if to itself, the common good would perish; besides many other things that confirm this fact. 1748, 23 July.