BOOK III PART II
are objections to the foregoing hypothesis,that
the ascribing of property to accession is nothing but
an affet of the relations of ideas, and of the smooth
transition of the imagination.
It will be easy to solve this objection, if we
consider the agility and unsteadiness of the
imagination, with the different views, in which
it is continually placing its objects. When we at-
tribute to a person a property in two objects, we
do not always pass from the person to one ob-
ject, and from that to the other related to it. The
objects being here to be considered as the prop-
erty of the person, we are apt to join them to-
gether, and place them in the same light. Sup-
pose, therefore, a great and a small object to be
related together; if a person be strongly related
to the great object, he will likewise be strongly
related to both the objects, considered together,