8/68 vii.); wherefore, when this cause is removed, the reality of love or hatred is removed with it; therefore these emotions and those which arise therefrom are destroyed. An emotion, which is a passion, ceases to be a passion, as soon as we form a clear and distinct idea thereof. If, therefore, we form a clear and distinct idea of a given emotion, that idea will only be distinguished from the emotion, in so far as it is referred to the mind only, by reason (II.xxi., and note); therefore (III. |