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would contribute more to his happinefs and mifery than 

 fmelling or hearing ; becaufe favours, in general, affect us 

 more than finells, or even harmonious founds. 



When tallie is united with fmelling and hearing, the ftatue, 

 after learning to know them feparately, would be enabled to 

 diftinguifh thefe fenfations, even when tranfmitted to him at 

 the fame time ; and therefore his exiftence would in fome 

 meafure be tripled. The union of thefe fenfes would ftill 

 farther extend and diverfifj the train of his ideas, augment 

 the number of his deflres, and make him contrail new 

 habits. 



5* Of Sight alo7ie. 



Sight and all fenfations are internal, and belong to the 

 mind. The difficulty is to conceive how we refer thefe fen- 

 fations to external obje6ls or caufes. Our ftatue would con- 

 flder light and colour as modes of his own exiftence ; but 

 tould have no idea that they belonged to bodies diftinft from 

 himfelf. At firft he would not be able to diftinguilli one 

 colour from another ; but he would foon acquire the habit 

 of confidering one colour at a time, and thus learn to dif- 

 tinguifh them. By fight alone he could have no idea of 

 figure, fituation, extenfion, or motion. 



6. Sight united with Smelly Hearings and Tajle. 



This union would augment our ftatue's mode of exiftence, 

 extend the chain of his ideas, and multiply the objects of his 

 attention, of his defires, and of his enjoyments. But he 

 would ftill continue to perceive himfelf alone, and could 

 have no idea of external objects. He would fee, fmell, tafte, 

 and hear, without knowing that he had eyes, nofe, mouth, or 

 ears, nor even that he had a body. With the fame colour 

 before his eyes, if a fucceflion of fmells, favours, and founds, 

 were prefented to him, he would confider himfelf as a coloui 

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