BOOK II PART II
produce first love, and then pride; because in
that case the imagination passes from remote
to contiguous, according to its propensity. Our
own virtues produce not first pride, and then
love to a friend or brother; because the passage
in that case would be from contiguous to re-
mote, contrary to its propensity. But the love
or hatred of an inferior causes not readily any
passion to the superior, though that be the nat-
ural propensity of the imagination: While the
love or hatred of a superior, causes a passion
to the inferior, contrary to its propensity. In
short, the same facility of transition operates
not in the same manner upon superior and in-
ferior as upon contiguous and remote. These
two phaenomena appear contradictory, and re-
quire some attention to be reconciled.
As the transition of ideas is here made con-