SECTN 4'I1í: 461 their painted toys. Yet, here I would take notice once for all, that there is something of this complacency or fondness, which is very innocent and agreeable in the love which God our Creator has ordained, between kindred or the nearest relations, asid which, in general, is usually called natural affection ; but being superadded to the virions names of love or benevolence to in feriors, superiors, or equals, renders each of thema sort of dis- tinct species for which thereare scarce any names inour language. Parents lovetheir chiidrén with a fondness and tenderness, added to simple benevolence: Children love their parents with fondness and veneration ; husbands and wives love each other with a fond and tender friendship ; brothers and sisters find also a mutual fondness superadded to the mere love of equals. This fondness for near relations is manifested by the eyes, by the lips and voice, by the countenance and behaviour, and by a thousand nameless airs of kindness and tenderness, whichnature teaches and untferstands: Nor do we know how to give distinct names to these different sorts of love, unless we borrow them from the latin name of those relations, and call themparental and filial, conjugal and fraternal love, all which imply benevolence joined with a special kind of complacency. Perhaps, some readers might think it a strange unpardona- ble omission, if in a treatise ofthe passions, I should be quite silent of that passion, which is known to be one of the strongest, that is, the love which a man bears to the woman whom he seeks for a wife : But this has such complications and peculiarities in it, that I leave it to thedescription of other writers. And as for the lewd and vicious passions, which un- justlyassume the same name, they are not fit to be mentioned in this place. As an agreeable object gives complacency or delight ; so where the object is. disagreeable, it raises displicence, dislike, or disgust. The word disgust is borrowed from the disagree- ableness of food to our palate, and it is most frequently used in such a case; where the object has been once agreeable, but now ceases to be so. If this displicency rise to a very high degree, we call it abhorrence ; and sometimes by a metaphor borrowed from dis- agreeable food, it is called loathing. This is manifested by some distortions of the countenance, and by shutting the eyes, stopping the ears, turning away the face, or leaving the room. Where this disagreeableness between the person and the ob- ject is something very peculiar in nature, or is wrought into the very constitution of persons by some early accident in life, or by some long_and indulged habit, it obtains the name of antipathy : So somepersons have a natural antipathy to a cat or a spider, or to someparticular sort offood ; and the effects of it are oftentimes
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