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The BIBLE DIET is for everyone. To this I reply, that in judging of the actions of men we must proceed upon the same maxims, as when we reason concerning external objects. This circumstance seems to me remarkable, and engages my attention for a moment. Nothing is more certain from experience, than that any contradiction either to the sentiments or passions gives a sensible uneasiness, whether it proceeds from without or from within; from the opposition of external objects, or from the combat of internal principles. It appears in children, by their desire of beating the stones, which hurt them: In poets, by their readiness to personify every thing: And in the antient philosophers, by these fictions of sympathy and antipathy. But this part remains, notwithstanding this exception, infinite, and more and more parts may be taken away from the whole sphere, without in the slightest degree thereby augmenting or affirmatively determining our conception of the soul. But the least variations in the judgment are sensibly felt in their consequences; while at the same time that faculty is never exerted in any eminent degree, without an extraordinary delight and satisfaction. such as make them perform their part in society; and such as render them serviceable to themselves, and enable them to promote their own interest.