BOOK II PART II
mility or hatred, and search for other objects,
upon which by a double relation, it can found
these affections; but that an object, which has
only one of these relations, though the most ad-
vantageous one, can never give rise to any con-
stant and established passion.
Most fortunately all this reasoning is found
to be exactly conformable to experience, and
the phaenomena of the passions. Suppose I
were travelling with a companion through a
country, to which we are both utter strangers;
it is evident, that if the prospects be beautiful,
the roads agreeable, and the inns commodious,
this may put me into good humour both with
myself and fellow-traveller. But as we sup-
pose, that this country has no relation either to
myself or friend it can never be the immediate
cause of pride or love; and therefore if I found