We ought, therefore, to consider attentively in what manner those sensible qualities are disposed, in such things as by experience we find beautiful, or which excite in us the passion of love, or some correspondent affection.
SECTION XIII.
BEAUTIFUL OBJECTS SMALL.
The most obvious point that presents itself to us in examining any object is its extent or quantity.

And what degree of extent prevails in bodies that are held beautiful, may be gathered from the usual manner of expression concerning it.

I am told that, in most languages, the objects of love are spoken of under diminutive epithets.

It is so in all the languages of which I have any knowledge.

In Greek the [Greek: ion] and other diminutive terms are almost always the terms of affection and tenderness.