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IV. Of Delight and Pleasure, as opposed to each other
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VI. Of the Passions which belong to Self-Preservation
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XVI. Color considered as productive of the Sublime

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II. Proportion not the Cause of Beauty in Vegetables
III. Proportion not the Cause of Beauty in Animals

IV. Proportion not the Cause of Beauty in the Human

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VI. Fitness not the Cause of Beauty

VII. The Real Effects of Fitness

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INTRODUCTION.

ON

ON TASTE.

Na superficial view we may seem to differ very widely from each other in our reasonings, and no less in our pleasures: but, notwithstanding this difference, which I think to be rather apparent than real, it is probable that the standard both of reason and taste is the same in all human creatures. For if there were not some principles of judgment as well as of sentiment common to all mankind, no hold could possibly be taken either on their reason or their passions, sufficient to maintain the ordinary correspondence of life. It appears, indeed, to be generally acknowledged, that with regard to truth and falsehood there is something fixed. We find people in their disputes continually appealing to certain tests and standards, which are allowed on all sides, and are supposed to be established in our common nature. But there is not the same obvious concurrence in any uniform or settled principles which relate to taste. It is even commonly supposed that this delicate and aerial faculty, which seems too volatile to endure even the chains of a definition, cannot be properly tried by any test, nor regulated by any standard. There is so continual a call for the exercise of the reasoning faculty; and it is so much strengthened by perpetual contention, that certain

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