BOOK III PART III
ject, in all its parts, is fitted to attain any agree-
able end, it naturally gives us pleasure, and is
esteemed beautiful, even though some exter-
nal circumstances be wanting to render it alto-
gether effectual. It is sufficient if every thing
be compleat in the object itself. A house, that
is contrived with great judgment for all the
commodities of life, pleases us upon that ac-
count; though perhaps we are sensible, that
noone will ever dwell in it. A fertile soil, and
a happy climate, delight us by a reflection on
the happiness which they would afford the in-
habitants, though at present the country be de-
sart and uninhabited. A man, whose limbs
and shape promise strength and activity, is es-
teemed handsome, though condemned to per-
petual imprisonment. The imagination has a
set of passions belonging to it, upon which our
sentiments of beauty much depend. These pas-