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The Rules Of Navigation Never Navigated A Ship. The Rules Of Architecture Never Built A House.

It Is Natural To Men To Judge Of Things Less Known, By Some Similitude They Observe, Or Think They Observe, Between Them And Things More Familiar Or Better Known. In Many Cases, We Have No Better Way Of Judging. And, Where The Things Compared Have Really A Great Similitude In Their Nature, When There Is Reason To Think That They Are Subject To The Same Laws, There May Be A Considerable Degree Of Probability In Conclusions Drawn From Analogy.

For The Perception Of The Beautiful We Have The Term "taste"--a Metaphor Taken From That Which Is Passive In The Body And Transferred To That Which Is Active In The Mind.

For, Until The Wisdom Of Men Bear Some Proportion To The Wisdom Of God, Their Attempts To Find Out The Structure Of His Works, By The Force Of Their Wit And Genius, Will Be Vain.

A Definition Is Nothing Else But An Explication Of The Meaning Of A Word, By Words Whose Meaning Is Already Known. Hence It Is Evident That Every Word Cannot Be Defined; For The Definition Must Consist Of Words; And There Could Be No Definition, If There Were Not Words Previously Understood Without Definition.