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If, said he, by the word sense we were to understand opinion and judgment, and by the word common, the generality, or any considerable part of mankind, it would be hard to discover where the subject of common sense could lie; for that which was according to the sense of one part of mankind, was against the sense of another: salvatore ferragamo outletand if the majority were to determine common sense, it would change as often as men changed. That in religion, common sense was as hard to determine as catholic or orthodox. What to one was absurdity, to another was demonstration. " In policy, if plain British or Dutch sense were right, Turkish and French must certainly be wrong.

The author appears to have a double intention in that Essay, corre¬sponding to the double title prefixed to it. One intention is, to justify the use of wit, humour, and ridicule, in discussing among friends the gravest subjects. " I can very salvatore ferragamo outletwell suppose, says he, men may be frighted out of their wits; but I have no apprehension tney should be laughed out of them.

Another eminent writer, who has put the question what common sense is, is Fenelon, the famous archbishop of Cambray. That ingenious and pious author, having had an early prepossession in favour of the Cartesian philosophy, made an attempt to establish, on a sure foundation, the metaphysical arguments which Des Cartes had invented to prove the being of the Deity. For this purpose, he begins with the Car¬tesian doubt. He proceeds to find out the truth of his own existence, and then to examine wherein the salvatore ferragamo outletevidence and certainty of this and other such primary truths consisted. This, according to Cartesian principles, he places in the clearness and distinctness of the ideas.

" Behold then those ideas or general notions, which it is not in my power either to contradict or examine, and by which I examine and decide in every case, insomuch that I laugh instead of answering, as often as any thing is proposed to me, which is evidently contrary to what these im¬mutable ideas represent." I shall only observe upon this passage, that the interpretation it gives of Des Cartes criterion of truth, whether salvatore ferragamo outletjust or not, is the most intel¬ligible and the most favourable I have met with. I beg leave to mention one passage from Cicero, and to add two or three from late writers, which show that this word is not become obsolete, nor has changed its meaning. De Oratore, Lib.

Priestley8 Institutes, Prelim. Essay, vol. i, p. 27, " Because common sense is a sufficient guard against many errors in religion, it seems to have been taken for granted, that common sense is a sufficient instructor also, whereas in fact, salvatore ferragamo outletwithout positive instruction, men would naturally have been mere savages with respect to religion; as, without similar instruction, they would be savages with respect to the arts of life and the sciences. Common sense can only be compared to a judge; but what can a judge do without evidence and proper materials from which to form a judgment ?" Priestleys Examination of Dr. Reid, &c.