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Proposition — Part III

Latin

Cum mens se ipsam suamque agendi potentiam contemplatur, lætatur et eo magis quo se suamque agendi potentiam distinctius imaginatur.

English (Elwes 1883)

When the mind regards itself and its own power of activity, it feels pleasure: and that pleasure is greater in proportion to the distinctness wherewith it conceives itself and its own power of activity.

Modern English

When the mind contemplates itself and its own power of acting, it feels joy, and the more distinctly it imagines itself and its power of acting, the greater that joy is.

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