BOOK II PART I
originally different betwixt the beauty of our
bodies and the beauty of external and foreign
objects, but that the one has a near relation to
ourselves, which is wanting in the other. This
original difference, therefore, must be the cause
of all their other differences, and among the
rest, of their different influence upon the pas-
sion of pride, which is excited by the beauty
of our person, but is not affected in the lcast
by that of foreign and external objects. Plac-
ing, then, these two conclusions together, we
find they compose the preceding system be-
twixt them, viz, that pleasure, as a related or re-
sembling impression, when placed on a related
object by a natural transition, produces pride;
and its contrary, humility. This system, then,
seems already sufficiently confirmed by expe-
rience; that we have not yet exhausted all our
arguments.