E5P9
Proposition — Part V
Latin
English (Elwes 1883)
An emotion, which is attributable to many and diverse causes which the mind regards as simultaneous with the emotion itself, is less hurtful, and we are less subject thereto and less affected towards each of its causes, than if it were a different and equally powerful emotion attributable to fewer causes or to a single cause.
Modern English
An affect that is referred to many and diverse causes, which the mind contemplates simultaneously with the affect itself, is less harmful. We also suffer less from it, and are less affected toward each of its causes, than an equally strong affect that is referred to only one or to fewer causes.