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in the Exercife of its Faculties. 
c ‘ The energy of nature and of human reafon 
are ftrikingly difplayed in this circumftance, that 
man is the only animal endued with the perception 
of order, decency, and propriety in words and in 
actions. He alone difcerns, in vifible objedls, 
beauty, gracefulnefs, andfymmetry. And, tranf- 
ferring the analogy, from the fight to the mind, 
he becomes fenfible, that fuperior beauty, regu¬ 
larity, and order, fhould diftinguifh the intention 
and behaviour; and cautioufly avoids whatever is 
unbecoming and unmanly, and particularly, every 
loofe imagination and expreflion. An attention 
to thefe things forms and conftitutes that Honejlum , 
which is the fubjedt of our enquiry.” 
Lord Kahns, whom every lover of genuine 
criticifm muft read with pleafure, and quote wich 
gratitude, obferves alfo, that, “ The reafonings 
employed in the fine arts, are of the fame kind 
with thofe, which regulate our conduct. Mathema¬ 
tical and metaphyfical reafonings (fays he) have 
no tendency to improve focial intercourfe, nor 
are they applicable to the common affairs of 
life: but a juft tafte of the fine arts, derived 
from rational principles, furnifhes elegant fub- 
je£ts for converfation, and prepares us for 
afting in the focial date, with dignity and 
propriety.” * 
# Introdu&ion to Elements of Criticifm. 
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