BOOK III PART III
or volition. The most immediate effects of plea-
sure and pain are the propense and averse mo-
tions of the mind; which are diversified into
volition, into desire and aversion, grief and joy,
hope and fear, according as the pleasure or pain
changes its situation, and becomes probable or
improbable, certain or uncertain, or is consid-
ered as out of our power for the present mo-
ment. But when along with this, the objects,
that cause pleasure or pain, acquire a relation to
ourselves or others; they still continue to excite
desire and aversion, grief and joy: But cause,
at the same time, the indirect passions of pride
or humility, love or hatred, which in this case
have a double relation of impressions and ideas
to the pain or pleasure.
We have already observed, that moral dis-
tinctions depend entirely on certain peculiar