xxx.), which are bad, are bad in so far as they impede the mind from understanding (IV.

xxvii.).

So long, therefore, as we are not assailed by emotions contrary to our nature, the mind's power, whereby it endeavours to understand things (IV.
xxvi.), is not impeded, and therefore it is able to form clear and distinct ideas and to deduce them one from another (II.

xl.
note.ii.and II.xlvii.

note); consequently we have in such cases the power of arranging and associating the modifications of the body according to the intellectual order.