BOOK I PART I
the soul, produces the new impressions of de-
sire and aversion, hope and fear, which may
properly be called impressions of reflexion, be-
cause derived from it. These again are copied
by the memory and imagination, and become
ideas; which perhaps in their turn give rise
to other impressions and ideas. So that the
impressions of reflexion are only antecedent
to their correspondent ideas; but posterior to
those of sensation, and derived from them. The
examination of our sensations belongs more to
anatomists and natural philosophers than to
moral; and therefore shall not at present be
entered upon. And as the impressions of re-
flexion, viz. passions, desires, and emotions,
which principally deserve our attention, arise
mostly from ideas, it will be necessary to re-
verse that method, which at first sight seems
most natural; and in order to explain the nature