Therefore we make an absolute endeavour for its existence, in other words (which by III.ix.note, come to the same thing) we desire and strive for it; this was our first point.

Again, if we conceive that something, which we believed to be the cause of pain, that is (III.xiii.

note), which we hate, is destroyed, we shall rejoice (III.

xx.).

We shall, therefore (by the first part of this proof), endeavour to destroy the same, or (III.