STUDY XII. 3 



the conformities of Society, fuch as comic Writers, 

 Satyrifts, Epigrammatifts, and even the greatefl: part 

 of Moralifts, are men of wit : fuch were the Abbé 

 de Choify^ La BruyerCy St. Evremont, and the like. 

 Thofe who difcover to us the conformities of Na- 

 ture, fuch as tragic, and other Poets of fenfibility, 

 the Inventors of arts, great Philofophers, are men 

 of genius : fuch were Shakefpeare, Corneille, Racine, 

 Newton, Marcus Aurelius, Montefquieu, La Fontaine, 

 Fenelon, J. J. Rotijfeaii. The firft clafs belong to 

 one age, to one feafon, to one nation, to one junto; 

 the others to pofterity and to Mankind. 



We (hall be flill more fenfiblc of the difference 

 which fubfifts between mind and foul, by tracing 

 their affeftions in oppofite progreffes. As often, 

 for example, as the perceptions of the mind are 

 carried up to evidence, they are exalted into a 

 fource ofexquifite pleafure, independently of every 

 particular relation of intereft ; becaufe, as has been 

 faid, they awaken a feeling within us. But when 

 we go about to analyze our feelings, and refer 

 them to the examination of the mind, or reafoning 

 power, the fublime emotions which they excited in 

 us vanifli away ; for in this cafe, wç do not fail to 

 refer them to fome accommodation of fociety, of 

 fortune, of fyflem, or of fome other perfonal inte- 

 reft, whereof our reafon is compofed. Thus, in 



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