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Quotation from The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding
“Square held human nature to be the perfection of all virtue, and that vice was a deviation from our nature, in the same manner as deformity of body is.”
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, Book III, Chapter iii (Project Gutenberg #6593)
The narrator introduces the two tutors' rival doctrines.
Citation: "Square held human nature to be the perfection of all virtue, and that vice was a deviation from our nature, in the same manner as deformity of body is." — Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, Book III, Chapter iii (Project Gutenberg #6593). (id fielding-tom-jones-q2)
Portrait: Henry Fielding, Unknown engraver, Public domain.
