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fcription will have more objects of pleafure and 

 of beauty than ordinary minds. Relations which 

 would have efcaped the majority of mankind, will 

 be imprelfed on their fenfes, and combinations 

 will be formed of which others could have no con- 

 ception. Their minds branched out, in a manner, 

 to more objects, will in fact have more fources of 

 pain and pleafure ; only that as the portion of plea- 

 fure is greater than that of pain in the world, their 

 pleafures will be proportionably more numerous. 



But there are other differences fubfifting among men 

 of apparently equal genius, which feem difficult to be 

 accounted for. One man fhall excel in an art for 

 which another pofTefles no qualification, who yet is 

 at the fummit of excellence in fome other. That 

 the paflions muft have an effect in forming our dif- 

 pofition * and caft of thinking, cannot well be dif- 

 puted ; and the paffions being no more than mo- 

 difications of the appetites, on them muft in fomc 

 meafure ultimately depend the turn of mind in .parti- 

 cular perfons. 



I can eafily conceive that one fenfe^may be fo per- 

 fectly and delicately organized, as to be more fufcep- 

 tible, to diftinguifti more nicely, and to prefent the 

 ideas of that fenfe more perfect than the other fenfes ; 

 and this is probably the cafe with thofe who pofTefs a 

 very fine mufical ear without any acutenefs of under- 



* How far the natural frame of the body or the violence of 

 appetite may influence the mind, is not eafy to define. A delicate 

 habit, unable to bear the extremes of cold and heat, or any other 

 inconvenience, may difpofe the perfon to be cautious, fufpicious, 

 fretful. The fame may in the end render him avaricious. On 

 ;he other hand, there are paflions which almoft entirely depend on 

 cirly aSbciations of ideas. 



ftanding. 



