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note), according as the power of the mind and body may be increased or diminished, &c.; and consequently (III.
xii.), according as the mind may desire or shrink from the conception of it (III.
xiii. Coroll.), in other words (III.xiii.
note), according as it may love or hate the same.
Q.E.D. Note .-- Hence we understand how it may happen, that we love or hate a thing without any cause for our emotion being known to us; merely, as a phrase is, from sympathy or antipathy.
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