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The Ethics

PREFACE
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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.

Q.E.D.
PROP.III.

An emotion, which is a passion, ceases to be a passion, as soon as we form a clear and distinct idea thereof.
Proof .-- An emotion, which is a passion, is a confused idea (by the general Def.

of the Emotions).

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.
iii.), the emotion will cease to be a passion.


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