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in the Exercife of its Faculties . 
haps, the reft of the hearers, as harfh and dif- 
cordant. May not this be owing to the very fine 
tafte of the former, by which they are enabled, in 
the midft of feeming diflonances, to find out 
relations, which do not affeCt ears lefs exercifed 
than theirs ? 
The analogy which we find in all the works of 
nature, allows us to conjecture, that the fame law, 
which determines the agreeablenefs of founds, 
has alfo an influence upon other objeCts of our 
fenfes. Some colours, for inftance, fet together, 
give an agreeable fenfation to the eye, and more 
fo, than if they appeared Angle. The fame 
principle may, perhaps be extended to fmells, 
and to favours, with fome reftriCtions, however; 
for, though it may be generally afierted, that thofe 
which are falubrious are agreeable; yet it muft be 
owned, that their agreeablenefs does not always 
feem to depend on their falubrity. 
But it is not juft proportion and fymmetrical 
relation alone, that renders the works of the fine 
arts agreeable. They are chiefly made fo, by one 
principal objeCt or common end, to which all 
their different parts are adapted, and which enables 
the mind the more eafily to comprehend, and to 
retain them. 
Wifdom, in morality, has been defined—The 
having one good purpofe in view, and ufing the 
beft means to attain that purpofe. So beauty , in 
the imitative arts, might be faid to confift, in the 
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