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to our present
state. We are only troubled by the fears which we, and not nature, give
ourselves, for they add to the state in which we are the passions of the
state in which we are not.

As nature makes us always unhappy in every state, our desires picture to us
a happy state; because they add to the state in which we are the pleasures
of the state in which we are not. And if we attained to these pleasures, we
should not be happy after all; because we should have other desires natural
to this new state.

We must particularise this general proposition....

110. The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the
ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.

111. Inconstancy.--We think we are playing on ordinary organs when playing
upon man. Men are organs, it is true, but, odd, changeable, variable with
pipes not arranged in proper order. Those who only know how to play on
ordinary organs will not produce barmonies on these. We must know where are.

112. Inconstancy.--Things have