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For otherwise the diminution of the interest would never produce a relaxation of the morality, and reconcile us more easily to any transgression of justice among princes and republics, than in the private commerce of one subject with another. This quality, therefore, consists in the relations of objects to intelligent and rational beings. SECT. VI OF BENEVOLENCE AND ANGER This second proposition in the antithesis has a more extended aim than the first. Not to mention, that this is an evident consequence of the division of ideas into simple and complex. And where, indeed, should we look for objects to correspond to our conceptions, if not in experience, by which alone objects are presented to us? We can never have a vanity of resembling in trifles any person, unless he be possessed of very shining qualities, which give us a respect and veneration for him. Generally speaking we do not suppose them specifically different; but only attribute to them different relations, connections and durations. Every member of society is sen sible of this interest: Every one expresses this sense to his fellows, along with the resolution he has taken of squaring his actions by it, on condition that others will do the same.