Q.E.D.
Corollary.- (36:2) A lover will, therefore, feel pain if one of the
aforesaid attendant circumstances be missing.
Proof.- (36:3) For, in so far as he finds some circumstance to be missing,
he conceives something which excludes its existence. (4) As he is assumed
to be desirous for love's sake of that thing or circumstance (by, the last
Prop.), he will, in so far as he conceives it to be missing, feel pain
([xix] ). Q.E.D.
Note. (36:5) This pain, in so far as it has reference to the absence of
the object of love, is called Regret.
Prop. [XXXVII] Desire arising through pain or pleasure, hatred
or love, is greater in proportion as the emotion
is greater.
Proof. - (37:1) Pain diminishes or constrains man's power of activity
([xi] note), in other words ([vii] ), diminishes or constrains
the effort, wherewith he endeavours to persist in his own being;
therefore ([v] ) it is contrary to the said endeavour: thus all
the endeavours of a man affected by pain are directed to removing that
pain. (2) But (by the definition of pain), in proportion as the pain
is greater, so also is it necessarily opposed to a greater part of man's
power of activity; therefore the greater the pain, the greater the power
of activity employed to remove it; that is, the greater will be the
desire or appetite in endeavouring to remove it.
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