The English works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury, Volume 04 (of 11) — Thomas Hobbes — John Shaqi
The English works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury, Volume 04 (of 11)
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To endeavour, is _appetite_.
To be remiss, is _sensuality_.
To consider them behind, is _glory_.
To consider them before, is _humility_.
To lose ground with looking back, _vain glory_.
To be holden, _hatred_.
To turn back, _repentance_.
To be in breath, _hope_.
To be weary, _despair_.
To endeavour to overtake the next, _emulation_.
To supplant or overthrow, _envy_.
To resolve to break through a stop foreseen, _courage_.
To break through a sudden stop, _anger_.
To break through with ease, _magnanimity_.
To lose ground by little hindrances, _pusillanimity_.
To fall on the sudden, is disposition to _weep_.
To see another fall, is disposition to _laugh_.
To see one out-gone whom we would not, is _pity_.
To see one out-go whom we would not, is _indignation_.
To hold fast by another, is to _love_.
To carry him on that so holdeth, is _charity_.
To hurt one’s-self for haste, is _shame_.
Continually to be out-gone, is _misery_.
Continually to out-go the next before, is _felicity_.
And to forsake the course, is to _die_.
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CHAPTER X.
1. Having shewed in the precedent chapters, that sense proceedeth
from the action of external objects upon the _brain_, or some
internal _substance_ of the _head_; and that the _passions_ proceed
from the alteration there made, and continued to the _heart_: it is
consequent in the next place, seeing the diversity of degrees in
knowledge in divers men, to be greater than may be ascribed to the
divers _tempers_ of their brain, to declare _what other causes_ may
produce such _odds_, and excess of _capacity_, as we daily observe
in one man above another. As for that difference which ariseth from
_sickness_, and such accidental distempers, I omit the same, as
impertinent to this place, and consider it only in such as have
their _health_, and _organs_ well disposed. If the difference were
in the natural temper of the brain, I can imagine no reason why the
same should not appear first and most of all in the senses, which
being equal both in the wise and less wise, infer an equal temper in
the common organ (namely the brain) of all the senses.
2. But we see by experience, that _joy_ and _grief_ proceed _not_ in
_all_ men from the same _causes_, and that men differ very much in
the constitution of the body; whereby, that which helpeth and
furthereth _vital constitution_ in one, and is therefore delightful,
hindereth it and crosseth it in another, and therefore causeth
grief. The _difference_ therefore of _wits_ hath its original _from_
the _different passions_, and from the _ends_ to which the appetite
leadeth them.