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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume I.

CHAPTER XX
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I have only mentioned these here, as so many instances of modes of pleasure and pain resulting in our minds from various considerations of good and evil.

I might perhaps have instanced in other modes of pleasure and pain, more simple than these; as the pain of hunger and thirst, and the pleasure of eating and drinking to remove them: the pain of teeth set on edge; the pleasure of music; pain from captious uninstructive wrangling, and the pleasure of rational conversation with a friend, or of well-directed study in the search and discovery of truth.

But the passions being of much more concernment to us, I rather made choice to instance in them, and show how the ideas we have of them are derived from sensation or reflection..


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