BOOK II PART I
SECTIONIII. WHENCE THESEOBJECTS AND
CAUSES AREDERIVED
Being so far advanced as to observe a differ-
ence betwixt the object of the passions and their
cause, and to distinguish in the cause the qual-
ity, which operates on the passions, from the
subject, in which it inheres; we now proceed to
examine what determines each of them to be
what it is, and assigns such a particular object,
and quality, and subject to these affections. By
this means we shall fully understand the origin
of pride and humility.
It is evident in the first place, that these pas-
sions are derermined to have self for their ob-
ject, not only by a natural but also by an origi-
nal property. No one can doubt but this prop-
erty is natural from the constancy and steadi-
ness of its operations. It is always self, which