...combat of passion and of reason. Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and...contains not any 'representative quality, which renders SECT. it a copy of any other existence or modification. IIIWhen I am angry, I am actually possest with...

...person wholly unknown to me." That " reason is, and ought only to be, the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office, than to serve and obey them." If we take the word reason to mean what common use, both of philosophers, and of the vulgar, has made...

...combat of passion and of reason. Reason is, and ought only to be, the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and...extraordinary, it may not be improper to confirm it by some •their considerations. A passion is an original existence, or, if you will, modification of existence,...

...wholly unknown to me :" That " reason is, and ought only to be, the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office, than to serve and obey them." If we take the word rcasun to mean what common use, both of philosophers, and of the vulgar, hath made...

...defending them ; for instance, that " Reason is, and ought only to be, the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them." In the Essays he forbore their repetition. In the Treatise he is a sort of hard, uncompromising necessarian,...

...wholly unknown to me ;" that " reasou is, and ought only to be, the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them." [479] If we take the word reason to mean what common use, both of philosophers and of the vulgar, hath...

...characteristic, declares boldly that "reason is, and ought to be, the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them." The passions or desires are tendencies of a definite character which exist in man from the first ;...

...Duty in regard of them : — (1) " Reason is, and ought only to be, the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them."— Ibid. Bk. II. iii. 3 (p. 195). (2) [A few sentences further on] '' 'Tis not contrary to reason to prefer...

...Enquiry.' ' Works, ii. 195. MOR/ ' Reason is and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.' ' The phraseology is wantonly paradoxical in sound, because in his early treatise Hume aimed at being...

...right, rule all human conduct. ' Reason is, and ought only to be, the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.' It may point out to the passions the best way of attaining gratification, but it cannot exert any direct...