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This cannot take place with regard to pride and humility; because these are only pure sensations, without any direction or tendency to action. It will first be proper to observe a few of those experiments, which convince us, that our perceptions are not possest of any independent existence. If belief consisted only in a certain vivacity, conveyed from an original impression, it would decay by the length of the transition, and must at last be utterly extinguished: And vice versa, if belief on some occasions be not capable of such an extinction; it must be something different from that vivacity.
Nor is it any wonder that passion should produce the opinion of injury; since otherwise it must suffer a considerable diminution, which all the passions avoid as much as possible.