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CHAP. X. 



OF LOVE AND HATRED. 



definition of Love, Origin of the Social Pajfion. D'tjlike and Hat- 

 tred.DeJire and Aver/ion, 



LOVE is the idea of pleafure aflbciated with 

 another idea. Some of the firft imprefllons of 

 pleafure an infant receives are by the gratification of 

 its appetites. Its firft emotions of love are, therefore, 

 towards the being that fupplies it with food, &c. ; 

 and it is obfervable, infants never fail in this love. 

 The idea of pleafure is in reality firft united with the 

 food itfelf, and of courfe transferred to it, and thence 

 to the object by whom it is fupplied. All our wants 

 are fatisfied (particularly in our tender years) by means 

 of our own fpecies > hence the in oft agreeable ideas are 

 united with them, and fo often repeated, that in time 

 the love of mankind becomes, in a manner, a neceflary 

 part of ourfelvesj and from this fource may proceed 

 the focial affections. 



Difiike and hatred are the oppofites to love, and re- 

 fult from the idea of pain combined with another idea,. 

 A child fhall have no diflike to a certain medicine, till 

 after it has produced naufea, or fome painful fenfation, 

 and thenceforward he will fcarcely hear it named without 

 exprefling his averfion *. 



The parTions have been analyzed, and thus reduced 

 to loye and hatred by fome of the oldeft writers on the 



* The idea of pleafure being annexed to a thing, constitutes it, 

 as we fay, good. The idea of pain (either immediate or related) 

 evil. Thefe (as Mr. Locke obferves) are the hinges on which, 

 the paflions turn." See Locke, b. ii. c. 29. 



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