BOOK I PART III
myself nineteen of these ships as returning in
safety, and one as perishing. Concerning this
there can be no difficulty. But as we frequently
run over those several ideas of past events, in
order to form a judgment concerning one sin-
gle event, which appears uncertain; this con-
sideration must change the FIRST FORM of our
ideas, and draw together the divided images
presented by experience; since it is to it we re-
fer the determination of that particular event,
upon which we reason. Many of these images
are supposed to concur, and a superior number
to concur on one side. These agreeing images
unite together, and render the idea more strong
and lively, not only than a mere fiction of the
imagination, but also than any idea, which is
supported by a lesser number of experiments.
Each new experiment is as a new stroke of
the pencil, which bestows an additional vivac-