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painful fenfation, which is always excited at fight of 

 any thing incongruous. Thus we are fliocked on 

 looking at a monfter. It gives us pain to fee an 

 animal wanting a foot or an eye. This feeling is 

 indépendant of every idea of pain relatively to 

 ourfelves, let Philofophers fay what they will ; for 

 we fuffer in fuch a cafe, though we are affured that 

 the animal came into the world in that defedive 

 ftate. We are pained at the fight of incongruity, 

 even in infenfible objeds. Withered plants, muti- 

 lated trees, an ill-aflbrted edifice, hurt our feel- 

 ings. Thefe fenfations are perverted, or fuppreffed, 

 in Man, only by prejudice, or by education. 



OF ORDER. 



A feries of conformities, which have a common 

 centre, conftitutes order. There are conformities 

 ill the members of an animal ; but order exifls 

 •only in the body. Conformity re ers to the detail, 

 and order to the combination. Order extends our 

 pleafure, by colleding a great number of confor- 

 mities, and it fixes them, by giving them a deter- 

 mination toward one centre. It difcovers to us at 

 once, in a fingle objed, a fucceffion of particular 

 conformities, and the leading conformity to which 

 they all refer. Thus, order gives us pleafure, as 

 beings endowed with a reafon which embraces all 



Nature ; 



