Excerpt from Philosophical Treatise on the Passions: From the Last London Edition It may with justice be advanced, that the history of ourselves in this department, is of much greater utility than abstruser speculations concerning the metaphysical nature of the human soul, or even the most accurate knowledge of its intellectual powers. For it is according as the passions and affections are excited; and directed towards the objects investigated by these intellectual powers, that We become useful to ourselves or others; that ...
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Excerpt from Philosophical Treatise on the Passions: From the Last London Edition It may with justice be advanced, that the history of ourselves in this department, is of much greater utility than abstruser speculations concerning the metaphysical nature of the human soul, or even the most accurate knowledge of its intellectual powers. For it is according as the passions and affections are excited; and directed towards the objects investigated by these intellectual powers, that We become useful to ourselves or others; that We rise into respectability or sink into contempt; that we diffuse or enjoy happiness, diffuse or suf fer misery. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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