(9) We may in like manner
conceive hatred, hope, confidence, and the other emotions, as associated
with wonder; and we should thus be able to deduce more emotions than
those which have obtained names in ordinary, speech. (52:10) Whence it
is evident, that the names of the emotions have been applied in accordance
rather with their ordinary manifestations than with an accurate knowledge
of their nature.
(52:11) To wonder is opposed to Contempt, which generally arises from
the fact that, because we see someone wondering at, loving, or fearing
something, or because something, at first sight, appears to be like
things, which we ourselves wonder at, love, fear, &c., we are, in
consequence ([xv] Coroll. and [xxvii] ), determined to wonder
at, love, or fear that thing. (52:12) But if from the presence, or more
accurate contemplation of the said thing, we are compelled to deny
concerning it all that. can be the cause of wonder, love, fear, &c.,
the mind then, by, the presence of the thing, remains determined to
think rather of those qualities which are not in it, than of those
which are in it; whereas, on the other hand, the presence of the object
would cause it more particularly to regard that which is therein.
(52:13) As devotion springs from wonder at a thing which we love, so
does Derision spring from contempt of a thing which we hate or fear,
and Scorn from contempt of folly, as veneration from wonder at prudence.
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