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Part IV. EMOTIONS AND PASSIONS. 129
scape, where the sight, hearing, and smelling, are
employed : beside the accumulated pleasure above
mentioned of so many disserent similar emotions,
a pleasure of a different kind is felt srom the con-
cord of these emotions. As that pleasure resem-
bles greatly the pleasure of concordant sounds ,
it may be termed the Harmony of Emotions.
This harmony is felt in the different emotions occa-
sioned by the visible objefls ; but it is felt still more
sensibly in the emotions occasioned by the objefls
of different senses , as where the emotions os the
eye are combined with those of the ear. The for-
mer pleafure comes under the rule os addition :
this comes under a disserent rule. It is dircflly
in proportion to the degree of resemblance be-
tween the emotions, and inversely in proportion to
the deo-ree of connexion between the causes : to
o
feel this pleasure in perfection, the resemblance be-
tween the emotions cannot be too strong , nor the
connexion between their causes too slight. The
former condition is sels-evident; and the reason
os the letter is , that the pleasure of harmony is felt
from various similar emotions , distincl from each
other, and yet sweetly combining in the mind;
which excludes causes intimately connected, for
the emotions produced by them are forced into
one complex emotion. This pleasure of concord
or harmony, which is the result of pleasant emo-
tions, and cannot have place with respedt to those
that are painsul, will be surther illustrated, when
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scape, where the sight, hearing, and smelling, are
employed : beside the accumulated pleasure above
mentioned of so many disserent similar emotions,
a pleasure of a different kind is felt srom the con-
cord of these emotions. As that pleasure resem-
bles greatly the pleasure of concordant sounds ,
it may be termed the Harmony of Emotions.
This harmony is felt in the different emotions occa-
sioned by the visible objefls ; but it is felt still more
sensibly in the emotions occasioned by the objefls
of different senses , as where the emotions os the
eye are combined with those of the ear. The for-
mer pleafure comes under the rule os addition :
this comes under a disserent rule. It is dircflly
in proportion to the degree of resemblance be-
tween the emotions, and inversely in proportion to
the deo-ree of connexion between the causes : to
o
feel this pleasure in perfection, the resemblance be-
tween the emotions cannot be too strong , nor the
connexion between their causes too slight. The
former condition is sels-evident; and the reason
os the letter is , that the pleasure of harmony is felt
from various similar emotions , distincl from each
other, and yet sweetly combining in the mind;
which excludes causes intimately connected, for
the emotions produced by them are forced into
one complex emotion. This pleasure of concord
or harmony, which is the result of pleasant emo-
tions, and cannot have place with respedt to those
that are painsul, will be surther illustrated, when
Vol. I. 1