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To make the following observations understood, it may be necessary to premise some definitions, and observations, either universally acknowledged, or sufficiently proved by many writers both ancient and modern, concerning our perceptions called sensations, and the actions of the mind consequent upon them.
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“vast” — 1st and 2nd eds.
“their objects” — 1st and 2nd eds.
“substances” — 1st, 2nd, and 3rd eds.
“an idea clear enough” — 1st, 2nd, and 3rd eds.
“But if he has not received any of these ideas, or wants the senses necessary for the perception of them, no definition can ever raise in him any idea of that sense in which he is deficient” — 1st ed.
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“which men acquire an aversion to” — 1st ed.
“In this case we” — 1st and 2nd eds.
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“in some” — 2nd and 3rd eds.
“in our dress, and some other affairs; and yet this may arise from a like accidental conjunction of ideas: as for instance” — 1st ed.
“does not seem to be any” — 1st, 2nd, and 3rd eds.
“our” — 1st and 2nd eds.
“vastly” — 1st and 2nd eds.
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“affairs” — 1st ed.
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“often does” — 1st, 2nd, and 3rd eds.
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See above, Article VI.
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“of even” — 1st ed.
“or love of life may make us choose and” — 1st and 2nd eds.
“and yet no prospect of advantage, or fear of evil, can” — 1st, 2nd, and 3rd eds.
“Just in the same manner as to” — 1st and 2nd eds.
“self-love” — 1st and 2nd eds.
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“And no custom, education, or example could ever” — 1st and 2nd eds.
See Article VI.
Section VII.
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“noted” — 1st ed.
“that” — 1st ed.
“heat” — 1st ed.
“that there is something in the object just like our perception” — 1st and 2nd eds.
Bracketed word in footnote reads “as to” in 1st ed.
“figures, theorems” — 1st, 2nd, and 3rd eds.
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“as there are not a few objects” — 1st and 2nd eds.
“so we see a variety of other animals who” — 1st and 2nd eds.
“that” — 1st ed.
See Section VI, Articles XI, XII, XIII.
“that shall be touched at afterwards” — 1st ed.
“This will be plain from examples” — 1st, 2nd, and 3rd eds.
“yet is” — 1st ed.
“irregularly” — 1st ed.
“others” — 1st and 2nd eds.
“It is the same foundation which” — 1st and 2nd eds.
“vast” — 1st and 2nd eds.
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“and order” — 1st ed.
“vast” — 1st and 2nd eds.
“And” — 1st ed.
“By which” — 1st and 2nd eds.
Horace, Satires, Book II, Satire ii, verse 12.
“Where the excitement pleasantly beguiles the hard toil”; trans. H. R. Fairclough.
“vast” — 1st and 2nd eds.
“what exact” — 1st and 2nd eds.
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“shall spring” — 1st ed.
“shall sprout” — 1st ed.
“every” — 1st and 2nd eds.
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“vast” — 1st and 2nd eds.
“what vast beauty” — 1st and 2nd eds.
Section VT, Article III.
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See Section VI, Article XII.
“vast” — 1st and 2nd eds.
“vast” — 1st and 2nd eds.
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“chords” — 1st ed.
“every second vibration” — 1st ed.
“chords” — 1st ed.
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See Section IV, Article VII.
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“because” — 1st ed.
“an infinity” — 1st, 2nd, and 3rd eds.
“infinities of infinities” — 1st, 2nd, and 3rd eds.
“still find a greater” — 2nd and 3rd eds.
“infinite” — 2nd and 3rd eds.
“mind in which we are” — 2nd and 3rd eds.; “mind which we are in” — 1st ed.
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“Because however this proposition does contain” — 1st ed.
“with” — 2nd ed.
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“besides” — 1st ed.
“whimsies” — 1st ed.
“a silly” — 1st and 2nd eds.
“with as little sense contended” — 1st, 2nd, and 3rd eds.
“that” — 1st ed.
“vast” — 1st and 2nd eds.
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“they shall” — 1st ed.
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Poetics vi. The location in the Poetics is given by Scott Elledge in his abridged version of Hutcheson’s first Inquiry: Eighteenth-Century Critical Essays (Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1961), vol. 1, p. 552.
“manners in a moral sense” — 1st, 2nd, and 3rd eds.
“out of choice draw the finest characters possible for virtue” — 1st ed.
“would seem very remote” — 1st and 2nd eds.
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“may only here observe the pleasure which anyone shall receive from” — 1st ed.
“as also that pleasant sensation he shall have” — 1st ed.
“do not seem” — 1st ed.
“afterwards” — 1st and 2nd eds.
“possible” — 1st ed.
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“It is also certain that there is” — 1st ed.
“shall be” — 1st ed.
“and hence” — 1st ed.
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“if different senses of beauty be in other agents” — 1st ed.
Bracketed words in footnote read “no way necessarily” in 1st and 2nd eds.
“too subtle to be certain, that” — 1st and 2nd eds.
“offered” — 1st ed.
“the solid content of a cubic inch” — 2nd ed.; “cubic inches solid content” — 1st ed.
“that” — 1st ed.
“meet” — 1st ed.
“design as producing them” — 1st ed.
“no way” — 1st and 2nd eds.
“in this affair but an undirected force of attraction supposed” — 1st ed.
“shall” — 1st ed.
“even after” — 1st ed.
“might possibly” — 1st ed.
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“are at least still an infinity” — 1st ed.
“of” — 1st, 2nd, and 3rd eds.
“should be the effect of chance must be near the infinitesimal power of infinite to unity” — 1st, 2nd, and 3rd eds.
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“vast” — 1st and 2nd eds.
“like to” — 1st ed.
“it has”-1st ed.
See above, Article VIII.
“chance, as the hundredth or thousandth power of infinite surpasses unity” — 1st, 2nd, and 3rd eds.
“would” — 2nd ed.
“often, nay always” — 1st and 2nd eds.
“where” — 1st and 2nd eds.
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“shall” — 1st ed.
“minutes perhaps” — 1st ed.
“as also are” — 1st ed.
“varying” — 1st ed.
“gross” — 1st and 2nd eds.
“does” — 2nd ed.
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“when he is not” — 1st ed.
“designed plainly” — 1st ed.
“him” — 1st and 2nd eds.
“There is another kind of beauty also which is still pleasing to our sense, and from which we conclude wisdom in the cause as well as design, and that is” — 1st and 2nd eds.
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See the last Section.
“We may perhaps afterwards offer some reasons why the Author of nature may perhaps” — 1st ed.
See above, Section II, Article VIII.
“And yet” — 1st ed.
See above, Section I, Article XVII; Section IV, Article I.
“the” — 1st ed.
“which” — 1st ed.
“if” — 1st ed.
“call now” — 1st and 2nd eds.
“what were” — 1st ed.; “if anything was” — 2nd ed.
“these” — 1st ed.
“as in” — 1st ed.
See below, Articles XII, XIII, of this Section.
“conveniency” — 1st ed.
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Horace, De Arte Poetica, Line 19.
“For things there is a place, but not just now”; trans. H. R. Fairclough.
“often may” — 1st ed.
“some of the” — 1st ed.
“regularity and beauty” — 1st ed.
“the regular imaginations of our ladies” — 1st and 2nd eds.
“as when” — 1st and 2nd eds.
“shaken off the groundless opinions about” — 1st and 2nd eds.
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“or custom” — 1st ed.
See above, Article III of this Section. ** Milton, Il Penseroso.
“key” — 1st ed.
“sense” — 1st and 2nd eds.
“no custom could” — 1st ed.
“will” — 1st ed.
“the taste” — 1st ed.
“different sense from what we had” — 1st ed.
“might like such as proved” — 1st ed.
“no custom would” — 1st ed. * See Paradise Lost, Book 8.
“could” — 1st ed.
“necessarily the” — 1st ed.
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“when in reality the object has” — 1st ed.
“hear perhaps” — 1st ed.
“they” — 1st ed.
“never could” — 1st ed.
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“repeat our attention to them ever so often, we shall” — 1st ed.
“seeing them” — 1st ed.
“hence are” — 1st ed.
“which we had an aversion to” — 1st ed.
“sense of beauty or harmony naturally” — 1st ed.
“without examination conclude” — 1st ed.
“Often fear of contempt as void of taste or genius” — 1st ed.
“a perception of ideas of beauty when they do not perceive them” — 1st ed.; “a perception of beauty which in reality they have not” — 2nd ed.
Horace, Satires, Book II, satire ii, Verse 20.
“So earn your sauce with hard exercise”; trans. H. R. Fairclough.
“the enjoyment of the” — 2nd ed.
“is” — 2nd ed.
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“in the opinion of the world is” — 1st and 2nd eds.
“fitted” — 1st ed.
“foundations” — 1st ed.
“of” — 1st ed.
“our sense” — 1st and 2nd eds.
“to this manner” — 1st ed.
“circle pretty nearly” — 1st ed.
“and so on in more complex figures which have any regularity which can be entirely determined and known in every part from a few data” — 1st and 2nd eds.
“but equal in use with” — 1st ed.
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“antecedently” — 1st ed.
“the regular” — 1st ed.
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See Cicero, De Natura Deorum, Book I, Capital 27.
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“determine” — 1st and 2nd eds.
“vast” — 1st and 2nd eds.
“that manner which should be” — 1st ed.
“a farther reason from a sense still” — 1st ed.
“nor” — 1st ed.
“perhaps it may” — 1st ed.
Passage in brackets added in 2nd ed.
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Kivy, P. (1973). Treatise I: An Inquiry Concerning Beauty, Order, Harmony, Design. In: Francis Hutcheson: An Inquiry Concerning Beauty, Order, Harmony, Design. Archives Internationales d’Histoire des Idees / International Archives of the History of Ideas, vol 9. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2454-9_4
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