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1 6. This inverfion becomes fo much the eafier as the ineciuall- 

 ty betwixt the propofed motives is apparently fmaller, and fo 

 much the more difficult as the apparent inequality is greater. And 

 hence we perceive the benefit of inftrufflion, as by its means the 

 apparent inequality approaches Indefinitely to the real. 



17. Motives are prefented to the mind either by fenfation, 

 imagination, pailion, fenfe of duty, fear of remorfe, or moral 

 inflindls. In general thofe prefented by the three firft modes of 

 perception are moft purfued, becaufe in receiving them the mind 

 is entirely paflive, and their rejection is attended with a greater or 

 leller degree of pain ; whereas the comprehenfion of the latter, in 

 their full fuaforial view, requires attention and felf command, 

 which are oppofed by the natural indolence of the mind, tliough- 

 the importance of the determination to be taken ftrongly indicate 

 the propriety of applying them, and though the underftanding 

 pronounce the purfuit of the objeft they fuggeft: to be in fome 

 refpe(5ls the greater good. Hence the faying of Medea, Video me- 

 liora, &c. 



18. The difficulties in which this fubjecT; has hitherto been in- 

 volved have arifen in great meafure from the improper expref- 

 fions ufed in treating it, moft of which are in their literal fenfe 

 applicable only to corporeal nature which is paillve, and therefore 

 fuggefl falfe conceptions when applied to mind, which is ef- 



fentially 



