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1 A thing which we conceive as free must (I. Def. vii.) 2 be perceived through itself without anything else. If, 3 therefore, we conceive it as the cause of pleasure or pain, we 4 shall therefore (III. xiii. note) love it or hate it, and shall 5 do so with the utmost love or hatred that can arise from the 6 given emotion. But if the thing which causes the emotion be 7 conceived as acting by necessity, we shall then (by the same Def. 8 vii. Part I.) conceive it not as the sole cause, but as one of 9 the causes of the emotion, and therefore our love or hatred 10 towards it will be less. Q.E.D. 11 12