McArdle v. Mission Hosp., Inc.

INMAN, Judge.

*40 [C]ompassion is a natural feeling ... that hurries us without reflection to the relief of those who are in distress: it is this which in a state of nature supplies the place of laws, morals and virtues.... [T]he origin of society and law ... irretrievably destroyed natural liberty ... and serve as a substitute for natural compassion, which lost, when applied to societies, almost all the influence it had over individuals.... The people having in respect of their social relations concentrated all their wills in one, ... becom[ing] so many fundamental laws, obligatory on all the…