Note 1187 — AN ESSAY ON MAN, IN FOUR EPISTLES (continued 3)
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Hence passions rise, and more or less inflame, Proportioned to each organ of the frame, Nor here internal faculties control, Nor soul on body acts, but that on soul.
Pope derived the notion from Mandeville, who says that the diversity of passions in different men "depend only upon the different frame,—the inward formation of either the solids or the fluids." According to Pope the strongest organ gives rise to some passion of corresponding strength, which finally absorbs all other passions.