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" their own bodies, as they fee him do, and as“ they feel that they themfelves mull do if in his“ situation. ” 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. “ “Whatever is the paillon which arifes from“ any obje 61 in the person principally concerned," an analogous emotion springs up, at the thought" of his situation, in the bread of every attentive*"• fpeclator. In every palfion of which the mind" of man is susceptible, the emotions of the by-" dander always correspond to what, by bring-“ ing the cafe home to himself, he imagines" should be the sentiments of the fufferer. ”

To this principle of our nature which leads usto enter into the situations of other men, and topartake with them in the pallions which thefe si-tuations have a tendency to excite, Mr. Smithgives the name oîfyrnpathy ox fellow-feeling, whichtwo words he employs as synonymous. Uponsome occasions he acknowledges, that sympathyarifes merely from the view of a certain emotionin another person; but in general it arifes, not fomuch from the view of the emotion, as from thatof the situation which excites it.

2. A sympathy or fellow-feeling between differ-ent persons is always agreeable to both. WhenI am in a situation which excites any paid on , itis pleasant to me to know, that the fpedtators of