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CHAP. XIII. 



THE PASSIONS. 



Of the Pajfiom in general. Particular PaJJienf. djfai&tea Paf- 

 Jions.* Paternal Love. Sympathy. Avarice,* Ambition.* 

 Lo-ve. 



IT may prove of the highefl importance in morals 

 to analyze the feveral affections and paffions. 

 The general. caufe has been already traced to the fim- 

 ple fenfe of pleafdre and pain ; we have feen further 

 what it is that is called a fenfe of beauty * ; and now, 

 from the feveral modifications and combinations of 

 thefe, we fhall, perhaps, be able to form at leaft a 

 conjecture how other more complex paffions come to 

 be formed. ' . 



Love having been proved to proceed from an idea 

 of pleafure combined with another idea, and diflike, 

 or hatred, from an idea of pain combined in the fame 

 manner; dejireznd averfion .have been (hewn to be no 

 other than thefe paffions more actively exerted. Love 

 in the extreme, without defire, is admiration. Defire, 

 when applied to the gratifying of certain natural wants 

 of our bodies, is called appetite. Joy is the pofleffion 

 of a thing loved, a lively fenfe of prefent good. Grief 

 is a fenfe of difappointment, or good loft. Fear is the 

 fenfe of pain, or averfion, united with grief. Anger 



* "Hartley denominates the paffions, " aggregates of the ideas, 

 or traces of the fenfible pleafures and pains." How they become 

 united into the molt common affections it is our bufinefs to ex- 



piain. 



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