BOOK I PART III
traces of the resemblance.
This observation we may carry farther; and
may remark, that though custom be the foun-
dation of all our judgments, yet sometimes it
has an effect on the imagination in opposi-
tion to the judgment, and produces a contrari-
ety in our sentiments concerning the same ob-
ject. I explain myself. In almost all kinds of
causes there is a complication of circumstances,
of which some are essential, and others super-
fluous; some are absolutely requisite to the pro-
duction of the effect, and others are only con-
joined by accident. Now we may observe, that
when these superfluous circumstances are nu-
merous, and remarkable, and frequently con-
joined with the essential, they have such an
influence on the imagination, that even in the
absence of the latter they carry us on to t-he