BOOK I PART III
we can only repeat these contrary experiments
with their particular proportions; which coued
not produce assurance in any single event,
upon which we reason, unless the fancy melted
together all those images that concur, and ex-
tracted from them one single idea or image,
which is intense and lively in proportion to the
number of experiments from which it is de-
rived, and their superiority above their antag-
onists. Our past experience presents no deter-
minate object; and as our belief, however faint,
fixes itself on a determinate object, it is evident
that the belief arises not merely from the trans-
ference of past to future, but from some oper-
ation of the fancy conjoined with it. This may
lead us to conceive the manner, in which that
faculty enters into all our reasonings.
I shall conclude this subject with two reflec-