BOOK II PART II
SECTIONII. EXPERIMENTS TOCONFIRM
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Upon duly weighing these arguments, no
one will make any scruple to assent to that con-
dusion I draw from them, concerning the tran-
sition along related impressions and ideas, es-
pecially as it is a principle, in itself, so easy
and natural. But that we may place this sys-
tem beyond doubt both with regard to love and
hatred, pride and humility, it will be proper
to make some new experiments upon all these
passions, as well as to recal a few of these
observations, which I have formerly touched
upon.
In order to make these experiments, let us
suppose I am in company with a person, whom
I formerly regarded without any sentiments ei-
ther of friendship or enmity. Here I have the