XVI CONTENTS. 



SECTION II. 



PLEASURE OF OBSERVATION. 



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The love of country is the love of nature instances 



of it in mountaineers 29 34 



The charm of Nature 3437 



Cheerfulness of blind people 38 



Sensation a general feeling 39 



Pleasure of imagination 41 



Reverie and sleep 41 44 



Observation with thought ' 45 



Origin of discoveries 46 



Duration of Nature's charms 50 



The " act of life " 52 



SECTION III. 



THE SENSES. 



Tasting and smelling 53 



Senses of animals 55 



The dying monarch 57 



Senses which can be cultivated 58 



Education of the hand 59 



Extreme fineness of muscular feeling 60 



Limit of the power of the hand 61 



Hearing 62 



Sound uncertain information 63 



Sound, weakness 65 



The act of the mind superior to invention 66 



Pleasure of hearing 67 



Relation of hearing and touch 68 



Qualities of the ear 69 



