196 THE PHILOSOPHY 



2. Of Hearing alone. 

 The pleafures of the ear arife chleflj from the fucceffiori 

 of founds conformably to the rules of melody or of harmony. 

 Hence our ftatue's defires would not be confined to a fingle 

 found 5 he would wifh to become a complete air. Sounds 

 produce greater emotions than odours. They excite joy or 

 fadnefs independently of acquired ideas. Noife alone, with- 

 out nmfical expreffion, would be agreeable : And mufic 

 would convey pleafure proportioned to the exercife of the 

 ear. Simple, and even coarfe fongs, would at firfi: be ravifli- 

 ing. But, when gradually accuftomed to mufic more com- 

 pounded, the ear would difcover new fources of delight. 

 The pleafure of a fucceffion of mulical tones being fuperior 

 to that of a continued noife, he would not confound the one 

 with the other. 



3. Sindlifjg and Hearing u?iited. 

 As thefe fenfes, taken feparately, give to our ftatue no 

 idea of external objedts, neither can they by their union. 

 He would never fufpedl that he had two different organs of 

 perception, nor, at firft, diftinguifh two modes of exiftence 

 in himfelf. Sounds and odours would be confounded, and 

 feem to be only one fimple modification. He would learn, 

 however, by experience, and the aid of memory, to diftin- 

 guifh tv/o fenfations ; and then he would think that his ex- 

 iftence was double. His train of ideas is more varied and 

 extenfive, becaufe he has two kinds of modification ; and, 

 perhaps, noife would feem fo different from harmonious 

 founds, that he might imagine he had three fenfes. 



4. Tajle alone, and Tajle united ivith Smelling and Hearing* 

 When limited to tafte alone, the ftatue would acquire the 

 fame mental powers as with fmelling or hearing. Tafte 



