As will be easily seen, this conception is the necessary complement to Dante's system of ethics, based on individual free-will, and postulating a newly-created soul, fresh from the Maker's hand; a tabula rasa, with no attributes save the natural Propension towards that which gives it pleasure.
"Dante: His Times and His Work"
Arthur John Butler
The great Propension of the Jacobites to place confidence in imaginary means; and to construe all extraordinary appearances, into ominous signs of the restoration of their king is very well touched.
"The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753),Vol. V."
Theophilus Cibber
He had so strong a Propension to groveling, that his acquaintance were generally of such a cast, as could be of no service to him; and those in higher life he addressed by letters, not having sufficient confidence or politeness to converse familiarly with them; a freedom to which he was intitled by the power of his genius.
"The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753),Vol. V."
Theophilus Cibber