Note 119 — Chapter III
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Hume remarks (‘An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals,’ edit. of 1751, p. 132), “there seems a necessity for confessing that the happiness and misery of others are not spectacles altogether indifferent to us, but that the view of the former ... communicates a secret joy; the appearance of the latter ... throws a melancholy damp over the imagination.”