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Excerpt from Works of Saint-Pierre, Vol. 2 of 2: Comprising His Studies of Nature, Paul and Virginia, and Indian Cottage
Distinction between animal and human reason insufficiency of human reason - Perverted by edu cation - Definition of sentiment - Distinction be tween it and reason - Incorrect representations of man - Reason increases the violence of the pas sions - Misery of a nation devoted entirely to ln bitiou - Picture of ambitious Rome - No nation without some religion, and all have a sense of the existence ofgod - Cause of the opposite passions which agitate man - History of Ariadne - Enjoy ments to be found at home. Of physical sensa tions - Of the sense of Tasting - Smelling - Seeing - Hearing - Touching. -of the Sentiments of the Soul - Afl'ections of the Mind - Innocence - Pity Of the Love of Country - Of the Sentiment of Ad miralion - Of the Marvellous - Pleasure of Mys tery - Pleasures of ignorance-of the Sentiment of Melancholy - Pleasure of Ruins - Pleasure aris ing from Tombs - Ruins of Nature - ot the Plea sure of Solitude - Of the Sentiment of Love. Or some other Sentiments of the Deity, and a wrong others that of Virtue. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
