7. Some antipathies an effect of it.
That there are such associations of them made by custom, in the minds of most
men, I think nobody will question, who has well considered himself or others; and to this, perhaps, might be justly
attributed most of the sympathies and antipathies observable in men, which work as strongly, and produce as
regular effects as if they were natural; and are therefore called so, though they at first had no other original but the
accidental connexion of two ideas, which either the strength of the first impression, or future indulgence so united,
that they always afterwards kept company together in that man's mind, as if they were but one idea. I say most of
the antipathies, I do not say all; for some of them are truly natural, depend upon our original constitution, and are
born with us; but a great part of those which are counted natural, would have been known to be from unheeded,
though perhaps early, impressions, or wanton fancies at first, which would have been acknowledged the original
of them, if they had been warily observed. A grown person surfeiting with honey no sooner hears the name of it,
but his fancy immediately carries sickness and qualms to his stomach, and he cannot bear the very idea of it; other
ideas of dislike, and sickness, and vomiting, presently accompany it, and he is disturbed; but he knows from
whence to date this weakness, and can tell how he got this indisposition. Had this happened to him by an
over-dose of honey when a child, all the same effects would have followed; but the cause would have been
mistaken, and the antipathy counted natural.
