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diftind from the perception of thefe objcdls : And, accordingly, tiie 

 Brutes, which perceive thcfe objeds as well as we do, have no per- 

 ception of Beauty ; and many of our own fpecics fee numbers of 

 moft beautiful things without perceiving any Beauty in them. And 

 it is the fame with refpedt to the operations of our Mind ; for tlie. 

 perception of Beauty in them is quite diftindt from the perception 

 of the operations themfelves. 



Mr Locke fays, that the Idea of Beauty is a complex Idea of Co- 

 lour and Shape. If his own Idea of Beauty had been more perfcd, 

 he would have added Motion ; the Beauty of which is a much higher 

 Beauty than that of cither Shape or Colour. But I fay, that a 

 man may combine what Ideas he pleafes, and perceive the combina- 

 tion as diftindlly as poflible j yet, if he has not in his X ind a pre- 

 conceived Idea of Beauty, or, in common language, if he has not 

 Tafte, he will have no perception of Beauty in any fmgle thing, or 

 in any combination of things. 



Moreover, I fay, that we have not, from Senfation or Refledioriy 

 the Idea of Good^ for the fame,reafon that we have not the Idea of 

 Caufe and Effedl ; becaufe Good is that which has a tendency to 

 produce Hoppinejs. Now, how defective muft any fyftem of Ideas 

 be, that does not take in thofe two governing Ideas of Human Life, 

 the Beautiful and the Good? 



But what need I infift upon particulars, when that whole clafs of 

 Ideas, which, according to Mr Locke's own account of them, is mofl: 

 numerous, cannot be derived either from Senfation or Refledlion ? 

 The Ideas I mean are thofe of Relation . For, though from Senfa- 

 tion and Refledtion we may have the Idea of each of the two things 

 related^ it is impoffible that from either of thefe fources we can have 

 the Idea of the Relation ; which, therefore, is an Idea that the Mind 

 muft draw from its own ftore, without the afTiftance of either Senfc 

 or Reflexion. 



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