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had no opportunities to learn the customs, mannners, 

 opinions, of other ages and countries, are so much 

 surprized to see or hear of any thin| different frona 

 what thej have been accustomed to, and are so apt 

 to imagine that everjr such difference from their 

 manners and tenets is absurd, ridiculous, and a de- 

 viation from nature. In our infancy, when every 

 thing makes a strong imprefsion upon us, when we 

 are governed entirely by sight, when we are inca- 

 pable of attending to the progrefs of our minds, and 

 of judging what ideas are naturally connected toge- 

 ther, and what connections are owing to chance and 

 fancy, we form numberlefs combinations which be- 

 ing then frequently presented to the mind together, 

 -any one recurring aftsrwards immediately recalls 

 the rest with all the train of affections and pafsions 

 with which at first they were accompanied. 



And in many cases, the circumstance that recalls 

 any train of ideas and concomitant affections to the 

 jnind, is so trifling, has so slight, so vague a connec- 

 tion with it, that we are apt to overlook, it, and not 

 to perceive that it was by means of such a circum- 

 stance that this train of ideas and affections was pre- 

 sented to the mind : so that we are frequently at a 

 lofs to discover how they were recalled. The pro- 

 grefs of the mind is often so quick, and one idea 

 succeeds another so instantaneously, that it requires 

 in many cases some pains to separate the ideas, to 

 distinguifh the order of their succefsion, and to what; 

 their connection is owing. Many of these combinfi- 

 tions, particularly, which are formed in our infancy, 

 »re 50 arbritary, owing to such trifling accidents ^ as 



