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of their Htifiands. — Memorable faying of a dying Hindoo^ who re- 

 fufed to drink tvine^ which would have cured him,— The Stnfe of 

 the Beautiful dif ingulf jes Man from Brute. — It is the foundation 

 of Love and Friendfip among Men, and not only of Virtue but of 

 Religion. — Without the knowledge of the Beautiful, It Is Impojpble 

 that we can be truly Religious: — Nor, without that knowledge, can 

 we have any Love for Science or the Fine Arts. — There is a Senfc 

 of Beauty even In our Crimes, but a mlftaken one. — // Is fo unlver- 

 faU that it dlre£fs Men In the pradlce of the mof trifling things, 

 fuch as Drefs. — This proved In the example of Julius Ccefar. 

 — // Is to be obferved in a certain degree, even in fome Brute Ani- 

 mals, fuch as the Horfe. — The Author s apology for faying fo much 

 upon the fubjedl of the Beautiful In this Volume, wheji he had f aid 

 fo much of it In a preceding. — // Is afubjeSf treated of by no Modern 

 Phllofopher, except Mr Payley; whereas the Antlent Phllofophy is 

 full of it, — -particularly that of the Stoics, 



THave faid fo mucli of Beauty in the coiirfe of this work, that, 

 ... in order to explain the nature of it, I will here add a whole 

 chapter upon the fubje<St, though I have faid a good deal of it in the 

 fecond volume of this work *. But, as it is a fenfe fo common 

 among men, I think it is proper to fay fomething more to explain 

 more fully the nature of it. 



That Beauty is perceived by our intelled, not by our fenfes, muft 

 be evident to every man who knows {o much of the nature of man, 

 as to know that he has an intellectual, as well as an animal and ve- 

 getable, mind; and that thefe three minds, together with his body, 

 make that wonderful compofition wc call man. He muft know al- 

 fo what Mr Locke did not knov/j that fenfations and ideas are quite 

 different, the one belonging to our animal nature, the other to our 



intelledluai. 

 * Book 2. Chap. 5. 6. and 7. 



