Edmund Burke (17291797). On the Sublime and Beautiful. The Harvard Classics. 190914.
Sympathy, Imitation, and Ambition
UNDER this denomination of society, the passions are of a complicated kind, and branch out into a variety of forms, agreeably to that variety of ends they are to serve in the great chain of society. The three principal links in this chain are sympathy, imitation, and ambition.