xiii.) to remove it from us, so that we may not regard it as present; this was our second point.

Wherefore whatsoever conduces to pleasure, &c.

Q.E.D.
PROP.XXIX.

We shall also endeavour to do whatsoever we conceive men[6] to regard with pleasure, and contrariwise we shall shrink from doing that which we conceive men to shrink from.
[6] By "men" in this and the following propositions, I mean men whom we regard without any particular emotion.
Proof .-- From the fact of imagining, that men love or hate anything, we shall love or hate the same thing (III.

xxvii.).
That is (III.xiii.