5. Hatred.
On the contrary, the thought of the pain which anything present or absent is apt to produce in us, is
what we call hatred. Were it my business here to inquire any further than into the bare ideas of our passions, as
they depend on different modifications of pleasure and pain, I should remark, that our love and hatred of
inanimate insensible beings is commonly founded on that pleasure and pain which we receive from their use and
application any way to our senses, though with their destruction. But hatred or love, to beings capable of
happiness or misery, is often the uneasiness or delight which we find in ourselves, arising from a consideration of
their very being or happiness. Thus the being and welfare of a man's children or friends, producing constant
delight in him, he is said constantly to love them. But it suffices to note, that our ideas of love and hatred are but
the dispositions of the mind, in respect of pleasure and pain in general, however caused in us.
