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DISSERTATION II.

ship or good-will arises, from the similar tendency of the inclinations.

7. In respect, there is a mixture of humility, along with the esteem or affection: In contempt, a mixture of pride.

The amorous passion is usually compounded of complacency in beauty, a bodily appetite, and friendship or affection. The close relation of these sentiments is very obvious, as well as their origin from each other, by means of that relation. Were there no other phænomenon to reconcile as to the present theory, this alone, methinks, were sufficient.

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