BOOK II PART II
give it authority and influence on the mind. To
confirm us in any design, we search for motives
drawn from interest, from honour, from duty.
What wonder, then, that pity and benevolence,
malice, and anger, being the same desires aris-
ing from different principles, should so totally
mix together as to be undistinguishable? As
to the connexion betwixt benevolence and love,
anger and hatred, being original and primary,
it admits of no difficulty.
We may add to this another experiment, viz,
that benevolence and anger, and consequently
love and hatred, arise when our happiness or
misery have any dependance on the happiness
or misery of another person, without any far-
ther relation. I doubt not but this experiment
will appear so singular as to excuse us for stop-
ping a moment to consider it.