BOOK I PART IV
It is no less certain, that this philosophical
system has no primary recommendation to the
imagination, and that that faculty would never,
of itself, and by its original tendency, have
fallen upon such a principle. I confess it will
be somewhat difficult to prove this to the fall
satisfaction of the reader; because it implies a
negative, which in many cases will not admit
of any positive proof. If any one would take
the pains to examine this question, and would
invent a system, to account for the direct ori-
gin of this opinion from the imagination, we
should be able, by the examination of that sys-
tem, to pronounce a certain judgment in the
present subject. Let it be taken for granted, that
our perceptions are broken, and interrupted,
and however like, are still different from each
other; and let any one upon this supposition
shew why the fancy, directly and immediately,