BOOK II PART III
SECTIONIX. OF THEDIRECTPASSIONS
It is easy to observe, that the passions, both
direct and indirect, are founded on pain and
pleasure, and that in order to produce an affec-
tion of any kind, it is only requisite to present
some good or evil. Upon the removal of pain
and pleasure there immediately follows a re-
moval of love and hatred, pride and humility,
desire and aversion, and of most of our reflec-
tive or secondary impressions.
The impressions, which arise from good and
evil most naturally, and with the least prepara-
tion are the direct passions of desire and aver-
sion, grief and joy, hope and fear, along with
volition. The mind by an original instinct tends
to unite itself with the good, and to avoid the
evil, though they be conceived merely in idea,