It is evident, then, that one of these passions must arise from the love or hatred.
This is the reasoning I form in conformity to my hypothesis; and am pleased to find upon trial that every thing answers exactly to my expectation.

The virtue or vice of a son or brother not only excites love or hatred, but by a new transition, from similar causes, gives rise to pride or humility.

Nothing causes greater vanity than any shining quality in our relations; as nothing mortifies us more than their vice or infamy.

This exact conformity of experience to our reasoning is a convincing proof of the solidity of that hypothesis, upon which we reason.
Sixth Experiment.

This evidence will be still augmented, if we reverse the experiment, and preserving still the same relations, begin only with a different passion.