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CHAP. VII. 



Beauty is a perfecl'ion of our Intelleci not our Se fifes, — Of the difference 

 betwixt our IntelieSf and our Senfes ; — tbe IntelleEl perceiving only 

 things as they are conne&ed together^ the Senfes only fingle things. 

 "—I'his exemplified in our perception of a man^ ivhom we cannot be 

 faid properly to fee. — What Beauty is. — // is both in one objeEl^ and 

 in fever al objeEls confidered together, - - Beauty in one object^ exempli" 

 fed by the cafe of a fingle Animal^ but which conffs offo many dif- 

 fere?2t parts. — Beauty conffls in order and arrangement ; — the con- 

 trary of which is Dejormity. — Of this we cannot have an Idea, 

 without having at the fame time an Idea of Beauty. — The percep- 

 tion of Beauty is immediate^ as foon as isje perceive order and ar^ 

 rangement in objcEis ; and therefore the perception of it is called a 

 Senfe. — That Beauty is a perception of the Intelledl^ proved by the 

 example of the Brutes who have not that Senfe. — Of the univerfali- 

 ty of the Senfe of the Beautiful among Men. — There is a right and 

 a wrong Senfe of the Beautiful. — The wrong Senfe leads to the 

 greatefl Crimes and Ibices — but the right Senfe to Virtue and to 

 every Good A6llon. — // is the foundation of the principle of Honour^ 

 which is a governing principle among Men. — // makes them def- 

 pife lije^ and chcarfully fubmit to the mof cruel deaths. — Inflances of 

 this among the Hindoos^ — where Men roafl themf elves; — and where 

 Women burn thcmfelvcs with the dead bodies of their Hufbands. — 

 The reafons for thefe facrifices. — Of the penances of the Jougues. — 

 They arift from a principle of Honour^ and from Religion. — Their 

 Women cannot be refrained fnm burning themlelves. — This pro- 

 ceeds from a principle of Honour^ not from their grief for the death 



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