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mean by it anything but one or other of the two feelings I have just mentioned.
A feeling is a mere appearence; and it is settled among psychologists that, as such, it can bring about no event whatever.
Therefore, it cannot be meant that this feeling is the cause of th first drawing of the conclusion.
On the contrary, this inference is no doubt, brought about by a disposition of our nature acting upon some state of our nature represented by our belief in the premisses.
What must be meant, therefore, is that an anticipation of the agreeable feeling acts as a premiss and the only active pressisses to convince us of the truth od the conclusion.
But how monstrous this is, when it is plainly stated!
The feeling is nothing but the quality that belongs to the conclusion or to the act of inference as present to the