BOOK II PART I
able pleasure; and as its cause is some posses-
sion or property, which we enjoy, and which is
thereby related to us, we here dearly see all the
parts of the foregoing system most exactly and
distinctly drawn out before us. For the same
reason, that riches cause pleasure and pride,
and poverty excites uneasiness and humility,
power must produce the former emotions, and
slavery the latter. Power or an authority over
others makes us capable of satisfying all our
desires; as slavery, by subjecting us to the will
of others, exposes us to a thousand wants, and
mortifications.
It is here worth observing, that the vanity
of power, or shame of slavery, are much aug-
mented by the consideration of the persons,
over whom we exercise our authority, or who
exercise it over us. For supposing it possible