THINGS DENOTED BY NAMES. 99 



mean that the contemplation of it excites the senti- 

 ment of admiration ; and indeed somewhat more, 

 for the word implies that we not only feel admiration, 

 but approve that sentiment in ourselves. In some 

 cases, under the semblance of a single attribute, two 

 are really predicated : one of them, a .state of the 

 mind itself; the other, a state with which other 

 minds are affected by thinking of it : as when we say 

 of any one that he is generous. The word generosity 

 expresses a certain state of mind, but being a term of 

 praise, it also expresses that this state of mind excites 

 in us another mental state, called approbation. The 

 assertion made, therefore, is twofold, and of the fol- 

 lowing purport : Certain feelings form habitually a part 

 of this person's sentient existence ; and, moreover, 

 the idea of those feelings of his, excites the sentiment 

 of approbation in ourselves or others. 



As we thus ascribe attributes to minds on the 

 ground of ideas and emotions, so may we to bodies 

 on similar grounds, and not solely on the ground of 

 sensations : as in speaking of the beauty of a statue ; 

 since this attribute is grounded upon the peculiar 

 feeling of pleasure which the statue produces in our 

 minds, and which is not a sensation, but an emotion. 



VII. GENERAL RESULT. 



15. Our survey of the varieties of Things which 

 have been, or which are capable of being, named 

 which have been, or are capable of being, either 

 predicated of other Things, or made themselves the 

 subject of predications is now complete. 



Our enumeration commenced with Feelings. These 

 we scrupulously distinguished from the objects which 

 excite them, and from the organs by which they are, 



H 2 



