xvii.).

Wherefore, the emotion, which is referred to the thing which we regard as absent, is not of a nature to overcome the rest of a man's activities and power (IV.
vi.), but is, on the contrary, of a nature to be in some sort controlled by the emotions, which exclude the existence of its external cause (IV.

ix.).

But an emotion which springs from reason is necessarily referred to the common properties of things (see the def.

of reason in II.xl.note.