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It is certain nothing more powerfully animates any affection, than to conceal some part of its object by throwing it into a kind of shade, which at the same time that it chews enough to pre-possess us in favour of the object, leaves still some work for the imagination. The stronger the relation is betwixt ourselves and any object, the more easily does the imagination make the transition, and convey to the related idea the vivacity of conception, with which we always form the idea of our own person. I cannot present an intuition of a cause, except in an example which experience offers to me. We may illustrate the systematic unity produced by the three logical principles in the following manner. Just load our software and Go! - My perception of its place lower down follows upon my perception of its place higher up the course of the river, and it is impossible that, in the apprehension of this phenomenon, the vessel should be perceived first below and afterwards higher up the stream.
But, lest anything he may have said may become the innocent cause of doubt in their minds, or tend to weaken the effect which his arguments might otherwise produce--he may be allowed to point out those passages which may occasion mistrust or difficulty, although these do not concern the main purpose of the present work. But such an opinion cannot be justified; and it is sufficient to apply to these reasoners the remark: