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The Ethics

PART III
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Q.E.D.
Note .-- Prop.

xxi.

explains to us the nature of Pity, which we may define as pain arising from another's hurt.

What term we can use for pleasure arising from another's gain, I know not.
We will call the love towards him who confers a benefit on another, Approval; and the hatred towards him who injures another, we will call Indignation.

We must further remark, that we not only feel pity for a thing which we have loved (as shown in III.


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