BOOK I PART III
Meccaor theHoly Land, are ever after more
faithful and zealous believers, than those who
have not had that advantage. A man, whose
memory presents him with a lively image of
the Red-Sea, and the Desert, and Jerusalem,
and Galilee, can never doubt of any miracu-
lous events, which are related either by Moses
or the Evangelists. The lively idea of the places
passes by an easy transition to the facts, which
are supposed to have been related to them by
contiguity, and encreases the belief by encreas-
ing the vivacity of the conception. The remem-
brance of these fields and rivers has the same
influence on the vulgar as a new argument; and
from the same causes.
We may form a like observation concerning
resemblance. We have remarked, that the con-
clusion, which we draw from a present object