The 131. Article. How one weepes for Sadnesse.
THe other cause is Sadnesse, followed by Love, or Joy, or generally by any cause, which makes the heart thrust much blood into the arte∣ries
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.
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- 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.
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- Descartes, René, 1596-1650.
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A81352.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 24, 2025.
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Sadnesse is requisite thereunto because, ma∣king the blood cold, it contracts the pores of the eyes. But because, according as it contracts them, it also decreases the quantity of vapours, whereunto they should allow passage, that is not yet sufficient to produce tears, unlesse the quantity of vapours be at the same time aug∣mented by some other cause. And there is no∣thing that encreaseth it more, then the blood sent from the heart in the Passion of Love. We see also, that they who are sad, do not continually shed tears, but onely by intervalls, when they make any new reflexion on the objects they affect.