BOOK II PART I
passions, may decay into so soft an emotion, as
to become, in a manner, imperceptible. But as
in general the passions are more violent than
the emotions arising from beauty and defor-
mity, these impressions have been commonly
distinguished from each other. The subject of
the human mind being so copious and vari-
ous, I shall here take advantage of this vulgar
and spacious division, that I may proceed with
the greater order; and having said ali I thought
necessary concerning our ideas, shall now ex-
plain those violent emotions or passions, their
nature, origin, causes, and effects.
When we take a survey of the passions, there
occurs a division of them intodirectandin-
direct. By direct passions I understand such
as arise immediately from good or evil, from
pain or pleasure. By indirect such as proceed