BOOK II PART II
trary to the natural propensity of the imagi-
nation, that faculty must be overpowered by
some stronger principle of another kind; and
as there is nothing ever present to the mind
but impressions and ideas, this principle must
necessarily lie in the impressions. Now it has
been observed, that impressions or passions
are connected only by their resemblance, and
that where any two passions place the mind
in the same or in similar dispositions, it very
naturally passes from the one to the other: As
on the contrary, a repugnance in the disposi-
tions produces a difficulty in the transition of
the passions. But it is observable, that this re-
pugnance may arise from a difference of de-
gree as well as of kind; nor do we experience
a greater difficulty in passing suddenly from a
small degree of love to a small degree of ha-
tred, than from a small to a great degree of ei-