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CHAP. XII. 



OF GUSTO M. 

 Fain from Cufism. P.l?afx.ri.~sl:i>n. 



TW O obfervations naturally occur, when we con- 

 template the force of cuftora : i ft, That when 

 we. have been long ufed to fee two things together, we 

 do not with perfect pleafure endure to behold them 

 Separate. This is, in truth, a fpecies of difippointment. 

 The idea appears incomplete ; there is a want, and a 

 painful fenfe of want. Thus a cow with but one horn, 

 or a dog with one ear, is a difagreeable object, though, 

 doubtlefs, if they had been created with but one, two 

 would have been accounted a deformity. 



idly, It is commonly remarked, .that cuftom will 

 make us love almoft any thing, and will reconcile us 

 to almoft any condition. The force of cuftorn here 

 feems to depend entirely on the principle of afTocia- 

 tion. We have already feen that pleafures are more 

 abundant than pains. There is, therefore, fcarcely any 

 Hate in life, which will not be productive of many 

 agreeable ideas; thefe ideas become connected witkr 

 the objects and actions which have occurred, while 

 they have remained imprefled upon the mind ; the 

 idea, therefore, that imparted the pleafure, and the 

 other idea, will become blended together; nay, the fenfe 

 of .pleafure will be transferred from the former to the 

 latter, fo that it may recur united with a fenfe of plea- 

 fure, even when the object that originally imp -ted the 

 pleafure is forgotten. Thus it is n;: ' " ,mmon 



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