benefit serves only to animate our fellow-feeling with his gratitude towards him who bestows it. When we look upon the per|son who is the cause of his pleasure with the eyes with which we imagine he must look upon him, his benefactor seems to stand before us in the most engaging and amiable light. We readily therefore sym|pathize with the grateful affection which he conceives for a person to whom he has been so much obliged; and consequently applaud the returns which he is disposed to make for the good offices conferred up|on him. As we intirely enter into the af|fection from which these returns proceed, they necessarily seem every way proper and suitable to their object.
2. In the same manner, as we sympa|thize with the sorrow of our fellow-creature whenever we see his distress, so we like|wise enter into his abhorrence and aver|sion for whatever has given occasion to it. Our heart, as it adopts and beats time to his grief, so is it likewise animated with that spirit by which he endeavours to drive away or destroy the cause of it. The indolent and passive fellow-feeling, by which we accompany him in his sufferings,
