Chapter II., That the Truth of Nature is not to be discerned by the Uneducated Senses |
| §1. | The common self-deception of men with respect to their power of discerning truth. | 50 | | §2. | Men usually see little of what is before their eyes. | 51 | | §3. | But more or less in proportion to their natural sensibility to what is beautiful. | 52 | | §4. | Connected with a perfect state of moral feeling. | 52 | | §5. | And of the intellectual powers. | 53 | | §6. | How sight depends upon previous knowledge. | 54 | | §7. | The difficulty increased by the variety of truths in nature. | 55 | | §8. | We recognize objects by their least important attributes. Compare Part I. Sect. I. Chap. 4. | 55 |
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