BOOK II PART II
SECTIONIX. OF THEMIXTURE OF
BENEVOLENCE ANDANGER WITH
COMPASSION ANDMALICE
Thus we have endeavoured to account for
pity and malice. Both these affections arise
from the imagination, according to the light,
in which it places its object. When our fancy
considers directly the sentiments of others, and
enters deep into them, it makes us sensible of
all the passions it surveys, but in a particular
manner of grief or sorrow. On the contrary,
when we compare the sentiments of others to
our own, we feel a sensation directly opposite
to the original one, viz. a joy from the grief
of others, and a grief from their joy. But these
are only the first foundations of the affections
of pity and malice. Other passions are after-
wards confounded with them. There is always