PART I. OF TASTE. 4? 



scenery with a reference to some art or system to which we are 

 shackled by habit and ignorance. But such a general view of 

 nature as I have mentioned, and as may be called universal taste, 

 is, even though incomplete, the source of the highest delight 

 which man can enjoy. It is by these means that we find 



" books in the running brooks, 



" Sermons in stones, and good in every thing." 



CHAPTER VI. 



OF CAUSES WHICH MAY INFLUENCE OU It FEELING AND 

 JUDGMENT IN MATTERS OF TASTE. 



Doubtless, many inconsistencies occur in our decisions; 

 and it is the common source of disputes in matters of this kind, 

 which has occasioned the well known adage, " that there is no 

 disputing in matters of taste." The business of this chapter 

 should be to inquire into the chief reasons of these inconsist- 

 encies ; but as this would require more discussion than can be 

 admitted in a work of this nature, I shall do little more than 

 state them. 



