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Excerpt from Historical Illustrations of the Origin and Progress of the Passions, and Their Influence on the Conduct of Mankind, Vol. 1 of 2: With Some Subordinate Sketches of Human Nature and Human Life All the primitive mental affections seem gifted for uniform purposes, and as their operation is exercised on a system composed of the same materials, where ever subsisting they are to be distinguished by in tensity alone. A certain association of people, therefore, more or less numerous, and of longer or shorter duration, perhaps, will elucidate the entire history of the human race. Experience is common ly proportioned to the survivance of individuals, and their intermixture with society. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.