er flights of science. By looking into physical causes, our minds are opened and enlarged; and in this pursuit, whether we take or whether we lose our game, the chace is certainly of service. Cicero, true as he was to the academick philosophy, and consequently led to reject the certainty of physical, as of every other kind of knowledge, yet freely confesses its great importance to the human understanding; "Est animo"rum ingeniorumque nostrorum nuturale quaddam quasi pabu«lum consideratio contemplatioque natura." If we can direct the lights we derive from such exalted speculations, upon the humbler field of the imagination, whilst we investigate the springs, and trace the courses of our passions, we may not only communicate to the taste a sort of philosophical solidity, but we may reflect back on the severer sciences some of the graces and elegancies of taste, without which the greatest proficiency in those sciences will always have the appearance of something illiberal. CONTENTS. A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of our [The first edition of this work was published in 1756: the second, Introduction. On Taste PART I. PAGE 81 63 IV. Of Delight and Pleasure, as opposed to each other 85 V. Joy and Grief 87 VI. Of the Passions which belong to Self-preser vation VII. Of the Sublime VIII. Of the passions which belong to Society X. Of Beauty XI. Society and Solitude XII. Sympathy, Imitation, and Ambition XIII. Sympathy XIV. The effects of Sympathy in the distresses of others 88 ibid 89 90 91 92 93 ibid 94 VII. Exercise necessary for the finer Organs VIII. Why things not dangerous sometimes pro- duce a passion like Terrour ibid XIII. The effects of succession in visual objects ex- |