BOOK II PART II
and that this passion is transfused into love
or hatred, whose object is some other person,
notwithstanding the rule I have already estab-
lished,that the imagination passes with difficulty
from contiguous to remote. But the transition in
this case is not made merely on account of the
relation betwixt ourselves and the person; but
because that very person is the real cause of
our first passion, and of consequence is inti-
mately connected with it. It is his approbation
that produces pride; and disapprobation, hu-
mility. No wonder, then, the imagination re-
turns back again attended with the related pas-
sions of love and hatred. This is not a contra-
diction, but an exception to the rule; and an ex-
ception that arises from the same reason with
the rule itself.
Such an exception as this is, therefore, rather