BOOK III PART II
engages our attention, and by the strict union
draws the inferior along it; for this reason, the
whole bears a relation to the proprietor of that
part, and is regarded as his property. The only
difficulty is, what we shall be pleased to call the
most considerable part, and most attractive to
the imagination.
This quality depends on several different cir-
cumstances, which have little connexion with
each other. One part of a compound object may
become more considerable than another, either
because it is more constant and durable; be-
cause it is of greater value; because it is more
obvious and remarkable; because it is of greater
extent; or because its existence is more separate
and independent. It will be easy to conceive,
that, as these circumstances may be conjoined
and opposed in all the different ways, and