vement ; c’est-à-dire qu’en telle et telle circonstance ils produiront telle ou telle sensation sur nos muscles ou sur notre vue. Toujours un attribut désigne une de nos manières d’être ou une série de nos manières d’être. En vain nous les déguisons en les groupant, en les cachant sous des mots abstraits, en les divisant, en les transformant de telle sorte que souvent nous avons
When, for example, we say of any character, or ( in other words ) of any mind, that it is admirable, we mean that the contemplation of it excites the sentiment of admiration ; and indeed somewhat more, for the word implies that we not only feel admiration, but approve that sentiment in ourselves. In some cases, under the semblance of a single attribute, two are really predicated : one of them, a state of the mind itself, the other, a state with which other minds are affected by thinking of it. As when we say of any one that he is generous, the word generosity expresses a certain state of mind, but being a term of praise, it also expresses that this state of mind excites in us another mental state, called approbation. The assertion made, therefore, is twofold, and of the following purport : Certain feelings form habitually a part of this person’s sentient existence ; and the idea of those feelings of his excites the sentiment of approbation in ourselves or others.
