"theorem, &c. but that this can be "only by fuppofing fuch things de

fcribed on paper, fo as to become "vifible."

What a philofophy is here! Is the beauty of truth, or moral actions, or the deformity of falsehood, or vice, capable of being reprefented on paper," or on any other plain, except the rafa tabula of the mind? His Lordship's diftinctions here, and in other paffages, upon the fame fubjects, appear to me rather more ingenious, than juft.

From the confideration of the fenfes, as is natural, his Lordship proceeds to treat of the paffions; upon which topic. he has advanced fome pofitions, which

are,

are, in my opinion, as far from the philofophy of morals, as the former' were from that of nature.

He fays,

"that a man who has be

แ trayed a friend, or put an enemy tò

death, in cold blood, foon lofes all "manner of affection, toward his own

"children."

Where did his Lord

ship find out this ftrange fecret? I can, fee no fort of natural reafon, for fuch an effect of vicefor furely it is no conclufive argument to urge, that fuch actions, being unnatural, muft render the perpetrator unnatural, throughout.

He affirms alfo, "that any perfon "who hates an other, conceives like"wife an averfion to his children, his "relations,

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"relations, nay even to his very pro"perty." This is quite new to me. I will venture to pronounce that his Lordship found not the truth of this maxim, in his own breaft; and I can truly contradict it, from my own experience.

The friend I at prefent love moft in the world, is fon to the man I once hated the most, and had most reafon for my averfion to. This perfon has never done me any good office in life, fufficient to counteract Lord Kaims's

Sun-principled principle-But I like him

for his wit and sense, and love him for his fpirit and worth. David loved Jonathan, though he hated Saulz

CHAP

CHA P. LIV.«

TRIA JUNCTA ENCORE.

és mi adi raw bigot

nr 1 To Mr.* *****

F

URTHER The extraordinary lufus naturæ I was endeavouring to describe to you, in my former letter, is not, I affure you, the only peculiarity which relates to me. I may fay, with the Pharifee, though in a different fense, that I am not as other men ara, For I am able to communicate two other species of pleasant fenfations, to myself, whenfoever I willthe operations of which being merely mechanical, may be easily explained, and can therefore be communicated to others.

Though

Though of this particular I am not quite certain; as I have only had my own experience, in thefe articles; hav ing never revealed these secrets to any other perfon, whatfoever, except oneand am perfectly convinced that the idea of either, has never yet been conceived by the mind of man.

One of thefe extraordinary manœuvrés I am refolved never to publish to the world, or even difclofe in private again; as it might poffibly be attended with very hazardous confequences, in a dou ble regard. For, in the firft place, it is a dangerous experiment, to the operator, himself; and, in the next, might be fatal to any other patient; as it is certainly the pleafanteft, and perhaps

the