CONTENTS. 



Plenfiires of the Man threefold — The Plenfures of Truth and Science, of the Fine Aris^ 



and oi Virtue — What diftinguiflies all thefe Pleafures from the Pleafures of Senfe— 



The Obje£l of the IntelkSl being Knoiu'edge, the Pleafure of all the three mull be 



Knowledge— K:iou}ledge pleafes, becaufe it is beautiful— Whi^t. Beauty is — It belongs to 



the Category o( Relation ; — is that Relation of Things which forms a JVhole, or a 



SyJlcTii — Beauty of this Kind in Propofitlons, and even in Ideas — Different Degrees of 



Beauty, as the S.yftem is greater or lefs — Of the Reality and Utility of Logic, by 



which we arrange the Syftems of Things — Of the Idea oi Good, and oiUfeful. 



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CHAP. VI. 



or the Pleifure of the Fine Arts^lt is Beauty which pleafes in them^-Their Beauty is 

 in the Piece; and the Piece muft be a Syjlem — The bed Critic is he that can beft com- 

 prehend the Syjlem — Of the Pleafure of Virtue — This alfo arifes from Beauty — Virtue 

 confidered both in Contemplation and Praliice — We contemplate it either in ourfelves or 

 others — In both Cafes we approve of it, becaufe it is beautiful — For the fame Reafon 

 we praSllce it — Benevolence not Virtue, without a certain Fltnefs or Propriety — Natural 

 Affection, GoodlVtll, and Jffefilon to our Kind, or to any Individual, are noX Virtue, 

 without a reflex Aft of the Mind — The feveral Relations that make Virtue a Syjlem— 

 confidered with relation to ourfelves, to others, and to God and Nature — The Virtue 

 of the Phllofopher takes in the whole Syftem of the Univerfe. p. Ill 



CHAP. VII. 



The Senfe of Beauty is the Source of every Adion and Affeftion that can be called Hu- 

 man— \x. produces the Principle of //aKuar — The Prevalence of that Principle among 

 all Nations, barbarous and civilized — Examples of it — The Nature of Honour con- 

 ne(3ed with the Unlverfal Paffion, the Deftre of Pralfe — From Plonour proceeds Anger— 

 Qi Revenge : — It operates differently upon different Charadters of Men — Love and 

 Frlendjhlp alfo proceed from a Senfe of the beautiful — The Connexion of Frlendjhlp 

 with Anger — Vanity alfo from the fame Source — Vanity oi two Kinds — £«t;_y neceflarily 

 connefted with Vanity — The Senfe of the Ridiculous is derived from the Senfe of what 

 is Beautiful — The fame is the Source of Ambition — alfo of Avarice — All our other Af- 

 feSllons and Paffions belong to our Animal Nature, not to our IntelleSlual — Beauty 

 pleafes becaufe it is Beauty— T\vz Final Caufe of that Pleafure— Kt^lon why Beauty 

 confifts in Syfiem — By the Exercifeof our Intelleif upon any Subjedl we are preparing 

 for the Exercife of it upon the greateft Subject, the Syfiem of the Univerfe. p. 124 



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