Chap. 19.] Pleajures of Intellect. 507 



we may be, in a great meafure, the fafliioners of our 

 own happinefs, are, perhaps, not materially miftaken. 

 The fenfible pictures are more numerous than the 

 fenfible pains ; but the greater part of our happinefs is 

 intellectual, or formed by the imagination. If, there- 

 fore, we can become fuch mafters in reafoning, as to 

 analyze and decompofe thofe pafiions which the ima- 

 gination forms, the fairy fabric is diffolved, and our un- 

 eafinefs is removed. Nor need we be prevented from 

 uniting together agreeable aggregates of ideas, in which 

 work nature will afiift, and for the reafon above inti- 

 mated, viz. becaufe the fenfible pleafures are more nu- 

 merous than the fenfible pains, and becaufe the mind is 

 only aflive in.purfuit f pleafure. 



and being the common time for committing outrages and murders, 

 jnuft increafe this apprehenfion. BefTdes it deprives us in fome 

 meafure of fbciety, and cuts off many pleafing trains of ideas which 

 objefts in the light introduce. After all, probably fo much of onr 

 happinefs depends on the action of our fenfes, that the deprivation 

 of any one of them is attended v.ith proportionable uneaiinefs. 

 Much ufe has been made of this principle m the gloomy conftrudHo 

 of religious buildings, &c. luperftiiion being the common offspring 

 tf fear. 



