BOOK II PART III
SECTIONX. OFCURIOSITY,OR THELOVE
OFTRUTH
But methinks we have been not a little inat-
tentive to run over so many different parts of
the human mind, and examine so many pas-
sions, without taking once into the consider-
ation that love of truth, which was the first
source of all our enquiries. Twill therefore be
proper, before we leave this subject, to bestow
a few reflections on that passion, and shew its
origin in human nature. It is an affection of so
peculiar a kind, that it would have been impos-
sible to have treated of it under any of those
heads, which we have examined, without dan-
ger of obscurity and confusion.
Truth is of two kinds, consisting either in the
discovery of the proportions of ideas, consid-
ered as such, or in the conformity of our ideas