The passions of the soule in three books the first, treating of the passions in generall, and occasionally of the whole nature of man. The second, of the number, and order of the passions, and the explication of the six primitive ones. The third, of particular passions. By R. des Cartes. And translated out of French into English.

The 103 Article. In Hatred.

CContrarywise, in Hatred the first thought of the object that breeds aversion so con∣veyes the spirits in the brain to the muscles of the stomack, and intestines, that they hinder the juyce of meats, from mixing with the blood, by contracting up all the passages through which it is used to runne, and so conveyes it to the small nerves of the spleen and the lower part of the Liver, where the receptacle of choler is, that those parts of the blood which use to be cast out to those places, get out, and runne with that in the branches of the hollow vein, to the heart, which causeth much inequality in the heat of it, seeing the blood that comes from the spleen is not heated nor rarified, but with much difficul∣ty; and on the other side that which comes from the lower part of the Liver, where the gall is in∣flamed and dilated suddenly, by which conse∣quence spirits that go to the brain, have parts ve∣ry unequall, and motions very unusuall: from

whence it comes, that they there fortifie the Id'aea of Hatred already imprinted and encline the souls to thoughts full of rancour and bitternesse.