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1 From what has been said we may clearly understand the 2 nature of Love and Hate. Love is nothing else but pleasure 3 accompanied by the idea of an external cause: Hate is nothing 4 else but pain accompanied by the idea of an external cause. We 5 further see, that he who loves necessarily endeavours to have, 6 and to keep present to him, the object of his love; while he who 7 hates endeavours to remove and destroy the object of his hatred. 8 But I will treat of these matters at more length hereafter. 9 10