BOOK II PART II
respect, as if I were owner of the palace.
It is not so evident at first sight, that a re-
lation of impressions is requisite to these pas-
sions, and that because in the transition the
one impression is so much confounded with
the other, that they become in a manner undis-
tinguishable. But as in pride and humility, we
have easily been able to make the separation,
and to prove, that every cause of these pas-
sions, produces a separate pain or pleasure,
I might here observe the same method with
the same success, in examining particularly the
several causes of love and hatred. But as I has-
ten a full and decisive proof of these systems,
I delay this examination for a moment: And
in the mean time shall endeavour to convert to
my present purpose all my reaaonings concern-
ing pride and humility, by an argument that is