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induces Man to think that every thing in nature is determined to exist agreably to established Laws.

Truths are of different kinds, some certain others only probable, the act of the mind in perceiving the former we call conviction, deletion the /deletion the the latter assent.

Reason is that faculty which enables Us from the relations of ideas that are known, to investigate, such as are unknown, and without which we never could proceed in the discovery of truth beyond first principles or intuitive axioms.

Common Sense or Rational Instinct perceives truth or commands belief, by an instantaneous and irresistible impulse, derived neither from Education nor habit, but from Nature, acting independently of our Will, whenever its object is presented according to an established Law, and in a similar Manner upon all or at least the Majority of mankind.

The following remarks will evince that there is an essential difference between these two faculties, that Common Sense cannot be accounted for by being called the perfection of Reason, nor Reason by being resolved into Common Sense 1o. We are conscious that the energy of understanding which perceives intuition Truth, is different from