Watts - BX5200 .W3 1813 v.2

SECTION III. 449 object appear pleasing, and fit to do us good, it raises the love of complacence, or delight ; if it be displeasing, and unfit to do us good, it excites a displicence or dislike. From love and hatred in their different kinds, but chiefly' from complacence and displicence, arise several more chief pas- sions, which may be called the third rank, and which are also distinguished by their objects. Note, In this pair of passions, complacence and displicence, and in all the third rank, which is chiefly derived from them; the pleasing object is more properly calledevil, than in the passions before-mentioned. Ifthe goodbe absent or unpossessed, andpossible to beobtain- ed the passion of love grows up to desire ; if the evil may possibly come upon us, the hatred expresses itselfin aversion, or avoid- ance : Though there may be also an aversion to some evil from which we are sufficiently secure. If there be any prospect of ob-- taming the absent good, there is a passion excited whieh'is called hope ; but if the absent evil be likely to come upon us, it raises the passion of fear. Fear also arises from a present or expected good in danger of being lost : And there is a hope of security from some absent threatening evil, or of deliverance from some evil that is present. If the good be actually obtained, or the evil prevented, it excites our joy and gladness ; if the good be actually lost, or the evil come upon us, it causes sorrow and grief. Whoever helps us to attain this good, or prevents the evil, excites in us gratitude : Whosoever hinders our attainment of good, or promotes the evil, raises our auger. There are very few, if any, ofthe passions for which we have any name, and which are usually taken notice of in the heart of man ; but they may be reduced to some or other of those general, heads, as I shall explain them. I do not pretend to lay clown this distinction and arrangement of thepassions of man, as anun- controverted or certain thing : But upon the best survey I can take of the various workings of the heart of man, as well as of the . several authors who have written on this subject, I do not find any of them lead me into an easier or better scheme than this. Agold logical scheme and arrangement of things has some ad- vantages in it ; it shews us the relations of various things to each other, their correspondencies, their similitude and differences ; and it greatly assists the memory : But it is still ofmore im- portance to describe the several passions with justice and truth as they are in nature, than to range them in logical classes and just order. SECT. II .A Further Account ofthe Nature ofthe Passions, ire some Remarks concerning them. It appears by what I have already said, that the passions are certain principles or powers in man of a mixed stature, he VOL. IL F e

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