Introd.y chap. X ; Bowring, vol. I, p. 46 sqq

147. On Man^ Part I, chap. m, secl. I, Prop. LXXX, Cor. 5. When words liave acquired any considérable power of cxcitingpleasant or painful vibrations in the nervous System, by being often associatcd wilh suoh things as do this, they may transfer a part of thèse pleasurcs and pains upon indiffèrent things, by beingat other limes often associatcd with sucli. This is one of the principal sources of the several factilious pleasures an«l pains of huiuan hfe. Tlius, to give an instance from childhood, the wonl> nccct, goody prelly, fine, etc., on the one hand, and the words badj ugh/, friyhtful, etc., on theolhcr, being applicd by the nurse and attendants in the young oliild's hearing alinostproniiscuously, and withoutthosc restrictions that are observed in correct spcaking, the one to ail the pleasures, the other to ail the pains of the several sensés, must by association raisc up gênerai pleisant and painful vibratii)ns, in which no one part can be distinguished above the rest; and, when applied by farther associations to objects of a ncutral kind, Ihey must transfer a gênerai pleasure or pain upon them.

14S. Introd.j chap. X, § xiii ; Bowring, vol. I, p. ¥3, liO. ihifj, Cf. Adam Smith, Thcory of Moral Sentiments, Part. Vil, secl. II : The ingénions sophistry of bis (Mandeville's) reasoning is hère, as upon inany other occasions, covered by the ambiguity of language. There

are some of our passions ^hich hâve do other names except those ^hich mark the disagreable aod offensive degree. The spectator is more apt to take notice of them in this degree than in any other.