STANDARD OF REASON AND TASTE.

It is probable that the standard both of reason and taste is the same in

all human creatures. For if there were not some principles of judgment

as well as of sentiment common to all mankind, no hold could possibly be

taken either on their reason or their passions, sufficient to maintain

the ordinary correspondence of life.

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