Coroll.), the disposition or emotion of the body is identical, whether the image be of a thing past, future, or present.

Thus the emotion of pleasure or pain is the same, whether the image be of a thing past or future.

Q.E.D.
Note I .-- I call a thing past or future, according as we either have been or shall be affected thereby.

For instance, according as we have seen it, or are about to see it, according as it has recreated us, or will recreate us, according as it has harmed us, or will harm us.

For, as we thus conceive it, we affirm its existence; that is, the body is affected by no emotion which excludes the existence of the thing, and therefore (II.