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A treatise on the influence of the passions upon the happiness of individuals and of nations: Illustrated by striking references to the principal events and characters that have distinguished the French revolution.Of the spirit of party.

A treatise on the influence of the passions upon the happiness of individuals and of nations:... Using examples from the French revolution, this chapter considers the passion of the spirit of the party. The spirit of party unites men together by the attraction of a common animosity, but not by esteem or cordial attachment. It extinguishes the affections which exist in the soul, in order to substitute, in their room, ties founded only on points of opinion. There is no passion which must tend more to hurry spirit; for this very reason, that he who is under its influence is really intoxicated; and the end of this passion not being personal to the individual whom it governs, he conceives that, even in doing wrong, he devotes himself meritoriously. The spirit of party is the only passion which creels the destruction of all the virtues into a virtue, which lays claim to glory from all those anions which men would labour to conceal, if they were performed from motives of personal interest. It will never lead to happiness. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A treatise on the influence of the passions upon the happiness of individuals and of nations: Illustrated by striking references to the principal events and characters that have distinguished the French revolution.Of the spirit of party.

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George Cawthorn
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Copyright © 1798 American Psychological Association
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175 –200
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10.1037/11671-010
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Using examples from the French revolution, this chapter considers the passion of the spirit of the party. The spirit of party unites men together by the attraction of a common animosity, but not by esteem or cordial attachment. It extinguishes the affections which exist in the soul, in order to substitute, in their room, ties founded only on points of opinion. There is no passion which must tend more to hurry spirit; for this very reason, that he who is under its influence is really intoxicated; and the end of this passion not being personal to the individual whom it governs, he conceives that, even in doing wrong, he devotes himself meritoriously. The spirit of party is the only passion which creels the destruction of all the virtues into a virtue, which lays claim to glory from all those anions which men would labour to conceal, if they were performed from motives of personal interest. It will never lead to happiness. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)

Published: Nov 10, 2008

Keywords: passions; party spirit; spirit of the party; French revolution; happiness; affections

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