Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A Dissertation on the Influence of the Passions: In the Production and Modification of Disease
The Passions, according to their general accepta tion, are merely the intense exertion of some of these modifications of attraction; or where that at traction is no longer obedient to the direction of Reason. In this state of over-exertion even the principle which naturally inclines us to good, Often becomes as pernicious as that which makes us prone to evil.
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