But this is not all.

The passions looking farther, comprehend whatever objects are in the least allyed or related to us.
Our country, family, children, relations, riches, houses, gardens, horses, dogs, cloaths; any of these may become a cause either of pride or of humility.
From the consideration of these causes, it appears necessary we shoud make a new distinction in the causes of the passion, betwixt that QUALITY, which operates, and the subject, on which it is placed.

A man, for instance, is vain of a beautiful house, which belongs to him, or which he has himself built and contrived.

Here the object of the passion is himself, and the cause is the beautiful house: Which cause again is sub-divided into two parts, viz.

the quality, which operates upon the passion, and the subject in which the quality inheres.