Analysis And Theory of the Emotions With Dissertations On Beauty Sublimity And
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One or two very important questions with respect to our Desires still remain to be discussed. Firsts It has often been asked whether all our Desires, without exception, be at the bottom Self- regarding, in other words, whether they all arise from the prospect of some Good or Evil to Self? Before answering this question directly, let us repeat that Sympathy with the weal or woe of others is an undoubted fact in human nature ; and this Sympathy, even with strangers, with persons in no way connect...ed with us, seems to arise im- SYMPATHY. 45 mediately on the view of their happiness or misery. Hobbes indeed, as we have just seen, says " Grief for the calamity of another is Pity, and ariseth from the imagination that the like calamity may befall himself. " But were this theory true, (for the first part only of the sentence expresses a fact, the second a theory^, still the fact is certain that we do sympathize with others, or, in other words, have a fellow-feeling for them, in numberless cases where our own interests are not immediately con- cerned.
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