BOOK II PART II
a mixture of love or tenderness with pity, and
of hatred or anger with malice. But it must be
confessed, that this mixture seems at first sight
to be contradictory to my system. For as pity
is an uneasiness, and malice a joy, arising from
the misery of others, pity should naturally, as
in all other cases, produce hatred; and malice,
love. This contradiction I endeavour to recon-
cile, after the following manner.
In order to cause a transition of passions,
there is required a double relation of impres-
sions and ideas, nor is one relation sufficient
to produce this effect. But that we may un-
derstand the full force of this double relation,
we must consider, that it is not the present sen-
sation alone or momentary pain or pleasure,
which determines the character of any passion,
but the whole bent or tendency of it from the