BOOK II PART II
progress of the affections, and hinders the one
from influencing or contradicting the other?
An heroic and burlesque design, united in
one picture, would be monstrous; though we
place two pictures of so opposite a character
in the same chamber, and even close by each
other, without any scruple or difficulty.
In a word, no ideas can affect each other, ei-
ther by comparison, or by the passions they
separately produce, unless they be united to-
gether by some relation, which may cause an
easy transition of the ideas, and consequently
of the emotions or impressions, attending the
ideas; and may preserve the one impression in
the passage of the imagination to the object of
the other. This principle is very remarkable,
because it is analogous to what we have ob-
served both concerning the understanding and