BOOK II PART I
their country, of their county, of their parish.
Here the idea of beauty plainly produces a
pleasure. This pleasure is related to pride. The
object or cause of this pleasure is, by the suppo-
sition, related to self, or the object of pride. By
this double relation of impressions and ideas, a
transition is made from the one impression to
the other.
Men are also vain of the temperature of the
climate, in which they were born; of the fer-
tility of their native soil; of the goodness of
the wines, fruits or victuals, produced by it;
of the softness or force of their language; with
other particulars of that kind. These objects
have plainly a reference to the pleasures of the
senses, and are originally considered as agree-
able to the feeling, taste or hearing. How is
it possible they coued ever become objects of