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1817.

ODLEIAN

14 NOV 1963

LIBRARY

CONTENTS-VOL. II.

PART II.

Of Love and Hatred.

Of the objects and causes of love and hatred....

Experiments to confirm this system.

Difficulties solved..

Of the love of relations

Of our esteem for the rich and powerful

Of benevolence and anger.

Of compassion ....

Of malice and envy ..

Of the mixture of benevolence and anger with compassion and

malice

Of respect and contempt.

Of the amorous passion, or love betwixt the sexes.....

Of love and hatred of animals

Of the influence of the imagination on the passions.

117

Of contiguity and distance in space and time..

121

The same subject continued

127

Of the direct passions.....

134

Of curiosity, or the love of truth

146

Of the rules which determine property

Of the transference of property by consent

Of the obligation of promises...

Some farther reflections concerning justice and injustice

Of the origin of government.

Of the source of allegiance

....

Of the measures of allegiance

PART II.

OF LOVE AND HATRED.

SECT. I.

Of the Object and Causes of Love and
Hatred.

'Tis altogether impossible to give any defini-
TIS
tion of the passions of love and hatred; and
that because they produce merely a simple im-
pression, without any mixture or composition.
Twould be as unnecessary to attempt any des-
cription of them, drawn from their nature, ori-
gin, causes, and objects; and that both because
these are the subjects of our present inquiry,
and because these passions of themselves are
sufficiently known from our common feeling
and experience. This we have already ob-
served concerning pride and humility, and here
repeat it concerning love and hatred; and in-
deed there is so great a resemblance betwixt
these two sets of passions, that we shall be
obliged to begin with a kind of abridgment of
our reasonings concerning the former, in order
to explain the latter.

As the immediate object of pride and humility is self or that identical person, of whose

SECT.

I.