A Treatise of Human Nature

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BOOK II PART II


that emotion, which they produce, but carry
the mind to something farther. Love is always
followed by a desire of the happiness of the
person beloved, and an aversion to his mis-
ery: As hatred produces a desire of the misery
and an aversion to the happiness of the person
hated. So remarkable a difference betwixt these
two sets of passions of pride and humility, love
and hatred, which in so many other particulars
correspond to each other, merits our attention.


The conjunction of this desire and aversion
with love and hatred may be accounted for by
two different hypotheses. The first is, that love
and hatred have not only a cause, which ex-
cites them, viz, pleasure and pain; and an ob-
ject, to which they are directed, viz, a person or
thinking being; but likewise an end, which they
endeavour to attain, viz, the happiness or mis-

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