This division is far from being exact.

The raptures of poetry and music frequently rise to the greatest height; while those other impressions, properly called PASSIONS, may decay into so soft an emotion, as to become, in a manner, imperceptible.

But as in general the passions are more violent than the emotions arising from beauty and deformity, these impressions have been commonly distinguished from each other.

The subject of the human mind being so copious and various, I shall here take advantage of this vulgar and spacious division, that I may proceed with the greater order; and having said ali I thought necessary concerning our ideas, shall now explain those violent emotions or passions, their nature, origin, causes, and effects.
When we take a survey of the passions, there occurs a division of them into DIRECT and INDIRECT.

By direct passions I understand such as arise immediately from good or evil, from pain or pleasure.