BOOK II PART I
SECTIONIX. OFEXTERNALADVANTAGES
ANDDISADVANTAGES
But though pride and humility have the
qualities of our mind and body that is self, for
their natural and more immediate causes, we
find by experience, that there are many other
objects, which produce these affections, and
that the primary one is, in some measure, ob-
scured and lost by the multiplicity of foreign
and extrinsic. We found a vanity upon houses,
gardens, equipages, as well as upon personal
merit and accomplishments; and though these
external advantages be in themselves widely
distant from thought or a person, yet they con-
siderably influence even a passion, which is di-
rected to that as its ultimate object, This, hap-
pens when external objects acquire any partic-
ular relation to ourselves, and are associated