And indeed the ideas of pain, and, above all, of death, are so very affecting, that whilst we remain in the presence of whatever is supposed to have the power of inflicting either, it is impossible to be perfectly free from terror.

Again, we know by experience, that, for the enjoyment of pleasure, no great efforts of power are at all necessary; nay, we know that such efforts would go a great way towards destroying our satisfaction: for pleasure must be stolen, and not forced upon us; pleasure follows the will; and therefore we are generally affected with it by many things of a force greatly inferior to our own.

But pain is always inflicted by a power in some way superior, because we never submit to pain willingly.

So that strength, violence, pain, and terror, are ideas that rush in upon the mind together.

Look at a man, or any other animal of prodigious strength, and what is your idea before reflection?
Is it that this strength will be subservient to you, to your ease, to your pleasure, to your interest in any sense?
No; the emotion you feel is, lest this enormous strength should be employed to the purposes of[16] rapine and destruction.