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how thefe pfirtinthy IJeis ^vq a':rfi>-'i.led \n.\ generj>lze:l.Si\z\ iJei? of ohjcifli ot 

 fenfe do nor give the greateft Plealaro. — It is the iJeas of Luelligeace, of iup.-rior 

 Intelligencps, — of the Supreme — and of the firil principles of things. — Thefe form 

 an intdle.ftual World in our Minds ; to live in which is our greateil Ilappinefs.— 

 Of the difference b&twixt this Happinefs and that of the practice of the Ethical Vir- 

 tues. — vJany things required for the practice of the Ethical Virtues, which the con- 

 templative life does not need. — The contemplative Piiilofopher vaay be faiJ to liv^ 

 in another World — and that in reipeit his Happinefs comes the neareft to the Divine. 

 —Example ot fuch a life in Piotinus the Alexandrian Philofopher. — One advantage 

 which a Man, who lives with himfelf, has, is th^J he is fupcrior to common opinion. 



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CHAP. vir. 



Heaiuy is a perfeAion of our Intelle<fl: not our Senfe?.— -Of the difference betwixt oar 

 IntellefTI: and our Senfes ; — the Intelie^ perceiving only things as they are conneded 

 together, the Senfes only fingle things — This exemplified in oar perception of a 

 man, whom we cannot be faid properly to fee. — What Beauty is. — It is both in one 

 object, and in feveral ohjeds confidered together — Beauty, in one objedt, exemplified 

 by the cafe of a fingle Animal, but which confiits of io many different parts. — Beau- 

 ty confifh in order and arrangement ; — the contrary of which is Detormiry. — Of 

 this we cannot have an Idea, without having at the fame time an Idea of Beiu;y.— 

 The perception of Beauty is immeJiate, as foon as we perceive order and arrange- 

 ment In obje<^s ; and therefore the perception of it is called a Scnie. — Tiiat Beauty 

 is a perception of the Intelleft, proved by the example of the Brutes wao have not 

 that Senfe. — Of tne univcrlality of the Senfe of the Beautiful aiuong Men.— there 

 is a right and a wrong Senie of the Beautiful. — The wrong Senle leads to the great- 

 eft Crimes and Vices — bur the right Senfe to Virtue and to every Good x'Vdtion — 

 It is the foundation of the principle of Honour, which i.^ a governing principle 

 among iMen. — It makes them defpife life, and chearfully fabmit to the molt cruel 



deaths.— Inltances of this among the Hindoos, — where Men roaft themiclve? ; 



and where W )men burn themlelves with the dead bodies of their Hufbands. ihe 



reafons for thefe facrifices — Of the penances of the Jougues. — They arilc fro;a a 

 principle of Honour, and from Religion. — Their Women cannot De reilrainecl from 

 burning themlelves — This proceeJs from a principle of Honour, not from their rrief 

 for the death ot their hufb.mdb. — Memorable laying of a dying Hindoo, who rtfuf- 

 cd to drink wine, wUich would have cured him. — The oenfe of die Beautiful dif- 

 tinguifhes Man from Brute. — It is the foundation of Love and Fnendlhip amnig 

 Men, an.l not only of V.rtue but of Religion.— W.ihout the knowledge or the Beau- 

 tiful, it is impoiUoie that we can be truly Rtiigious ;— Nor, without taat knowledge, 



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