4p10d.md (360B)
1 In so far as we conceive a thing as close at hand, or 2 not long passed away, we conceive that which excludes the 3 presence of the object less, than if its period of future 4 existence were more distant from the present, or if it had long 5 passed away (this is obvious) therefore (by the foregoing Prop.) 6 we are, so far, more intensely affected towards it. Q.E.D. 7 8