BOOK II PART II
fect resemblance, that can be imagined. If a
double relation, therefore, of impressions and
ideas is able to produce a transition from one
to the other, much more an identity of impres-
sions with a relation of ideas. Accordingly we
find, that when we either love or hate any per-
son, the passions seldom continue within their
first bounds; but extend themselves towards
all the contiguous objects, and comprehend the
friends and relations of him we love or hate.
Nothing is more natural than to bear a kind-
ness to one brother on account of our friend-
ship for another, without any farther examina-
tion of his character. A quarrel with one person
gives us a hatred for the whole family, though
entirely innocent of that, which displeases us.
Instances of this kind are every where to be met
with.