STUDIES 



NATURE 



SE QUEL OF ST UD Y XII. 



OF THE SENTIMENTS OF THE SOUL. 



AND, FIRST, 



Of mental AjfeBions. 



SHALL fpeak of mental afTfiflions, chiefly in 

 the vieu' of diftinguilhing them from the ien- 

 ciments of the foul : they diifcr efTentialîy fr.oiii 

 each other. For ex mi pie, the pleafure which co- 

 medy beftows is widely different from that of 

 which tragedy is the fource. The eir.otion which 

 excites laughter is an affection of the mind, or of 

 human reafon^ that which dilL.-lves us into tears 

 is a fentireient of the foul. Not that 1 would make 

 of the mind, and of the foul, two powers of a dif- 

 ferent nature j but it feems to me, as his been 

 already faid, that the one is to the odier, what 

 fight is to the body; mind is a faculty, and foul 

 is the principle of it : the foul is, if i may venture 

 VOL. IV. B thus 



