Devotion is love towards one whom we admire.
Explanation--Wonder (admiratio) arises (as we have shown, III.
lii.) from the novelty of a thing.

If, therefore, it happens that the object of our wonder is often conceived by us, we shall cease to wonder at it; thus we see, that the emotion of devotion readily degenerates into simple love.
XI.

Derision is pleasure arising from our conceiving the presence of a quality, which we despise, in an object which we hate.
Explanation--In so far as we despise a thing which we hate, we deny existence thereof (III.lii.

note), and to that extent rejoice (III.

xx.).