lix.); hence men, in so far as they are assailed by emotions which are passions, can be contrary one to another.

Q.E.D.
Note .-- I said that Paul may hate Peter, because he conceives that Peter possesses something which he (Paul) also loves; from this it seems, at first sight, to follow, that these two men, through both loving the same thing, and, consequently, through agreement of their respective natures, stand in one another's way; if this were so, Props.xxx.and xxxi.

of this part would be untrue.

But if we give the matter our unbiased attention, we shall see that the discrepancy vanishes.

For the two men are not in one another's way in virtue of the agreement of their natures, that is, through both loving the same thing, but in virtue of one differing from the other.