BOOK II PART I
just allowance for our superior knowledge and
understanding. Thus animals have little or no
sense of virtue or vice; they quickly lose sight
of the relations of blood; and are incapable of
that of right and property: For which reason
the causes of their pride and humility must lie
solely in the body, and can never be placed ei-
ther in the mind or external objects. But so far
as regards the body, the same qualities cause
pride in the animal as in the human kind; and it
is on beauty, strength, swiftness or some other
useful or agreeable quality that this passion is
always founded.
The next question is, whether, since those
passions are the same, and arise from the same
causes through the whole creation, the manner,
in which the causes operate, be also the same.
According to all rules of analogy, this is justly