44 their own bodies, as they fee him do, and as44 they feel that they themfelves muft do if in his44 fituation. ” The fame thing takes place, ac-cording to Mr. Smith , in every cafe in which ourattention is turned to the condition of our neigh-bour. 44 Whatever is the paffion which arifes from44 any objeft in the perfon principally concerned,a an analogous emotion fprings up, at the thought“ of his fituation, in the breaft of every attentive44 fpe&ator. In every paffion of which the mind44 of man is fufceptible, the emotions of the by-* ftander always correfpond to what, by bring-44 ing the cafe home to himfelf, he imagines44 lliould be the fentiments of the fufferer. ”

To this principle of our nature which leads usto enter into the fituations of other men, and topartake with them in the pafhons which thefe fi-tuations have a tendency to excite, Mr. Smithgives the name of Sympathy ox fellow-feeling, whichtwo words he employs as fynonymous. Uponfome occafions he acknowledges, that fympathyarifes merely from the view of a certain emotionin another perfon; but in general it arifes, notfomuch from the view of the emotion, as from thatof the fituation which excites it.

a. A fympathy or fellow-feeling between differ-ent perfons is always agreeable to both. WhenI am in a fituation which excites any paffion, itis pleafant to me to know, that the fpedators of