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Section II, 
On the Divijion of the Pajfions. 
Philosophers have difplayed no lefs ingenuity 
in arranging the order of the Paflions, than in 
tracing their caufes, by dividing the whole into two 
claffes, the fimple and the compofite. 
In the firft clafs they reckon Admiration, Love, 
Hatred, Grief, &c. ; in the fecond. Reverential Awe, 
Fear, Courage, Hope, Defpair, Longing, Rage, &c. 
Such is the arrangement approved of by the ce- 
lebrated Le Brun ; but, with all due refpeft for the 
memory of fo eminent an artilt, we are inclined, to 
contradict it, as founded, infome inftances, on fancy 
or conjecture : for why is hatred more fimple than 
rage j or how does hope or defpair appear to be 
more a compound than joy or forrow ? 
Dandre Bardon makes four divifions of Quiet, 
Agreeable, Painful, Terrible, or violent pafiions; 
which ftrikes us as a more juft and natural way of 
drawing the line of diftinCtion. On this occafion 
a doubt might be fuggefted refpeCting the propriety 
of adding to that lift fome of the other gales which 
ruffle the human mind, — fuchas Sufpenfe, Timidity, 
Contempt, and Derifion. 
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