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

 agreeable to another ; which, perhaps, may pro- 

 ceed from dilferentt indures in the cryflalline 

 humour ; and fome founds are indifferent, or 

 perhaps difpleafing to fome, though they fill 

 others with the highefl: rapture. Men vary in 

 the fame manner in the fenfes of touching, tail- 

 ing, and fmeliing : human reafon alfo receives 

 other impreffions (which generally cleave too 

 fail to it) fuch as proceed from the different 

 educations, religions, and cufloms of different 

 times and places. For all who have feen but 

 a little of the world know how very different 

 the general reafonings of one country are from 

 thofe of another -, and he who has been ilightly 

 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 imperfe6l ftate, any 

 luch thing as right reafon founded on demon- 

 ftration, except in fome few mathematical cafes, 

 which muil conilrain the aifent of all men. 

 Therefore, we cannot certainly conclude on \ 

 hardly any thing without controverfy, we muil | 



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