BOOK II PART II
pressions and ideas to this person; and let us
see what the effects are of all these complicated
attractions and relations.
Before we consider what they are in fact,
let us determine what they ought to be, con-
formable to my hypothesis. It is plain, that, ac-
cording as the impression is either pleasant or
uneasy, the passion of love or hatred must arise
towards the person, who is thus connected to
the cause of the impression by these double re-
lations, which I have all along required. The
virtue of a brother must make me love him; as
his vice or infamy must excite the contrary pas-
sion. But to judge only from the situation of
affairs, I should not expect, that the affections
would rest there, and never transfuse them-
selves into any other impression. As there is
here a person, who by means of a double rela-