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vourite in the eyes of one, is indifferent or dif- 

 agreeable to another; which, perhaps, may pro- 

 ceed from differentt in6lures in the cryftalline 

 humour ; and fome founds are indifferent, or 

 perhaps dirpleafing to fome, though they fill 

 others with the higheft rapture. Men vary in 

 the fame manner in the fenfes of touching, tail- 

 ing, and fmelling : human reafon alfo receives 

 other ipipreffions (which generally cleave too 

 faft to it) fuch as proceed from the different 

 educations, religions, and cuftoms of different 

 times and places. For all who have feen but 

 a little of the world know how very different 

 the general reafon ings of one country are from 

 thofe of another ; and he who has been (lightly 

 converfant in hiilory but a few ages backward, 

 will find, that the opinions and reafonings of the 

 fame place and people, in an age or two, are 

 quite transformed and changed ; fo that I can- 

 not fee that we have, in our imperfe6t ftate, any 

 luch thing as right reafon founded on demon- 

 ftration, except in fome few mathematical cafes, 

 which muft conftrain the affent of all men. 

 Therefore, we cannot certainly conclude on 

 hardly any thing without controverfy, we muft 

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