M. AUREL ANTON _de Seipso_, lib. i. § 17: End of the Iliad

Footnotes

[1] “What,” says Archdeacon Wilberforce, “is the natural root of
loyalty as distinguished from such mere selfish desire of personal
security as is apt to take its place in civilized times, but that
consciousness of a natural bond among the families of men which gives
a fellow-feeling to whole clans and nations, and thus enlists their
affections in behalf of those time-honoured representatives of their
ancient blood, in whose success they feel a personal interest? Hence
the delight when we recognize an act of nobility or justice in our
hereditary princes