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PartlV. EMOTIONS AND PASSIONS. 131
Next as to the effects of dissimilar emotions,
which we may guess will be opposite to what are
above desended. Dissimilar coexistent emotions ?
as laid above, never fail to distress the mind by the
difference of their tones ; srom which situation a
feeling of harmony never can proceed • and this
holds whether the caules be connected or not.
But it holds more remarkably where the causes are
connefted ; for in that case the dissimilar emotions
being forced into an unnatural union, produce an
actual feeling os diseord. In the next place , if we
would estimate the force of dissimilar emotions co-
existent, we muss distinguish between their causes
as connected or unconnected : and in order to
compute their sorce in the sormer case, subtrac-
tion mull be used instead of addition ; which will
be evident from what sollows. Dissimilar emo-
tions forced into union by the connexion of their
caules, are selt obicurely and imperfectly ; sor each
tends to vary the tone os mind that is suited to the
other ; and the mind thus dissracted between two
objects , is at no intrant in a condition to receive a
deep impression from either. Dissimilar emotions
proceeding from unconnected causes , are in a very
different condition ; sor as there is nothing to force
them into union , they are never felt but in succes-
sion; by which means, each hath an opportunity
to make a complete impression.
This curious theory requires to be illussrated
by examples In reading the description of the
Next as to the effects of dissimilar emotions,
which we may guess will be opposite to what are
above desended. Dissimilar coexistent emotions ?
as laid above, never fail to distress the mind by the
difference of their tones ; srom which situation a
feeling of harmony never can proceed • and this
holds whether the caules be connected or not.
But it holds more remarkably where the causes are
connefted ; for in that case the dissimilar emotions
being forced into an unnatural union, produce an
actual feeling os diseord. In the next place , if we
would estimate the force of dissimilar emotions co-
existent, we muss distinguish between their causes
as connected or unconnected : and in order to
compute their sorce in the sormer case, subtrac-
tion mull be used instead of addition ; which will
be evident from what sollows. Dissimilar emo-
tions forced into union by the connexion of their
caules, are selt obicurely and imperfectly ; sor each
tends to vary the tone os mind that is suited to the
other ; and the mind thus dissracted between two
objects , is at no intrant in a condition to receive a
deep impression from either. Dissimilar emotions
proceeding from unconnected causes , are in a very
different condition ; sor as there is nothing to force
them into union , they are never felt but in succes-
sion; by which means, each hath an opportunity
to make a complete impression.
This curious theory requires to be illussrated
by examples In reading the description of the