The Passions of the Mind in General

CHAP. II.

A small, ornate drop-cap letter T begins the chapter.Three fortes of actions proceede from mens ſoules, ſome are internall and immateriall, as the actes of our wittes and willes; others be meere externall and materiall, as the actes of our ſenſes, ſeeing, hearing, moving, &c. others ſtand betwixt theſe two extreames, and border vpon them both; the which wee may beſt diſcover in children, becauſe they lacke the vſe of reaſon, and are guided by an internall imagination, following nothing elſe but that pleaſeth their ſences, even after the ſame maner as bruite beaſtes doe: for, as we ſee beaſtes hate, love, feare and hope, ſo doe children. Thoſe actions then which are common with vs, and beaſtes, wee call Paſſions, and Affections, or perturbations of the mind, Motus original: "Motus (faith ſaint Auguſtine) anima quos Græci πάθη appellant ex Latinis quidam vt Cicero 3. Tuſcul perturbationes dixerunt, alii affectiones, alii affectus, alii expreſſas paſſiones vocarunt." (faith ſaint Auguſtine) The motions of the soul, which the Greeks call pathe passions, some Latins, such as Cicero in the third book of his Tusculan Disputations, called perturbations, others affections, others affects, and others expressly named them passions. The motions of the ſoule, called of the Greekes pathe passions, ſome Latines, as Cicero, called them perturbations,