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ESSAY, No. II. on the fame SubjeEi as the preceding. 



By the fame Author. 



J. F in the preceding eflay it has been eftablifhed that there Read April 

 is a ftyle in thought depending on the varieties of the intel- 

 ledtual charadter, and therefore indicative of thefe, it will follow 

 that from the fame fource fome information refpedling the 

 moral charadter may alfo be derived. Difpofitions are gene- 

 rated and habits confirmed by the approbation of the mind, 

 over which they in turn exert a reciprocal influence. When 

 the moral qualities do not obey the controuling diredlion of 

 the underflanding, what has depraved the morals will ufually 

 be found to warp and bias the judgment ; fince external cir- 

 cumftances, which produce forcible effedls on one part of man's 

 conflitution, do more or lefs afi'edl every other. The varieties 

 Vol. V. (I) then 



