BOOK II PART II
wheel to about, and leaving pride, where there
is only one relation, viz, of impressions, fall
to the side of love, where they are attracted
by a double relation of impressions and ideas.
By repeating the same experiment, in changing
anew the relation of ideas, I bring the affections
back to pride; and by a new repetition I again
place them at love or kindness. Being fully con-
vinced of the influence of this relation, I try the
effects of the other; and by changing virtue for
vice, convert the pleasant impression, which
arises from the former, into the disagreeable
one, which proceeds from the latter. The effect
still answers expectation. Vice, when placed
on another, excites, by means of its double re-
lations, the passion of hatred, instead of love,
which for the same reason arises from virtue.
To continue the experiment, I change anew the
relation of ideas, and suppose the vice to be-