BOOK II PART II
long to myself. What follows? What is usual.
A subsequent change of the passion from ha-
tred to humility. This humility I convert into
pride by a new change of the impression; and
find after all that I have compleated the round,
and have by these changes brought back the
passion to that very situation, in which I first
found it.
But to make the matter still more certain, I
alter the object; and instead of vice and virtue,
make the trial upon beauty and deformity,
riches and poverty, power and servitude. Each
of these objects runs the circle of the passions
in the same manner, by a change of their re-
lations: And in whatever order we proceed,
whether through pride, love, hatred, humility,
or through humility, hatred, love, pride, the
experiment is not in the least diversifyed. Es-