A philosophical treatise on the passions ... / by T. Cogan.

  • Cogan, T. (Thomas), 1736-1818.
Date:
1802
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    thing which deferves the name, can be in its own na- ture inert. An ufelefs excellence is a contradic- tion. The propenfity to love what is productive of good, extends itfelf much farther than to the powers and properties of moral agents. We naturally ac- quire an attachment to every object, animate or in- animate, which has been the habitual inflrument of good to us, or is capable of contributing to our gra- tification or advantage. Their latent powers firfl in- duce us to value them as treafures in referve ; our opinion of their capacity to become ferviceable, in- clines us to place our affections upon them; and in procefs of time they will, by the. affociation of ide- as, excite pleafing emotions, although their powers of utility are not always in our recollection. (See Note E.) II. HATRED. Hatred expreffes the difpofition we entertain concerning, or the manner in which we are affected by, the contemplation of whatever we fuppofe to be an Evil. It is not confined to abfolute fuffer- tng; it marks alfo our abhorrence of whatever ex- pofes to the danger of abfolute fuffering, or the di- minution