124, ANTIENT METAPHYSICS. Book II. 



CHAP. VII. 



The Senfe of Beauty ;.f the Source of every J&ion and JffeSJion that 

 can be called Human. — It produces the Principle of Honour.— 

 'Ihe Prevalence of that Principle atuong all Nations, barbarous 

 flnc/ civilized. — Examples of it. — The nature of Honour conne^ed 

 •with the Univerfal Paflion, the Defire of Praife. — Frotn Honour 

 proceeds Anger. — (^Revenge : — // operates differently upon different 

 CharaSlers of Men. — Love and Friendfhip alfo proceed from a Senfe 

 of the Beautiful. — 7 be Connexion of Friendfhip vuith Anger. — 

 Vanity alfo from the fame Source : — Vanity of two kinds. — Envy 

 neceffarily conneBed tuith Vanity. — The Senfe of the Ridiculous is 

 derived from the Senfe of ivhat is Beautiful. — The fame is the 

 Source o/" Ambition — alfo o/'Avarice. — ^// our other Affeftions and' 

 Paflions belong to our Animal Nature, not to our Intellectual. — 

 Beauty /)/^^^j hecatfe it is Beauty. — The Final Caufe of that Plea- 

 fure. — Recfon ivhy Beauty confifs in Syftem. — By the Exercife of 

 our Intellect upon any Subje^ ive are preparing for the Exercife of 

 it upon the greatefl SubjeH, the Syftem of the Univcrfc. 



IN the preceding Chapter, I think, I have fhownthat Beauty is the 

 Principle of Virtue, and, by confequence, of what is greateR and 

 nobleft in our Nature : But I fay further, that it has an univerfal 

 influence in human life, and that every adlion and affedlion, which 

 are, properly fpeaking, human, proceed from that fource. 



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