But he has made the Greeks far their superiors in the politic and military virtues.

The councils of Priam are weak; the arms of Hector comparatively feeble; his courage far below that of Achilles.

Yet we love Priam more than Agamemnon, and Hector more than his conqueror Achilles.

Admiration is the passion which Homer would excite in favor of the Greeks, and he has done it by bestowing on them the virtues which have but little to do with love.

This short digression is perhaps not wholly beside our purpose, where our business is to show that objects of great dimensions are incompatible with beauty, the more incompatible as they are greater; whereas the small, if ever they fail of beauty, this failure is not to be attributed to their size.
SECTION XXV.
OF COLOR.
With regard to color, the disquisition is almost infinite; but I conceive the principles laid down in the beginning of this part are sufficient to account for the effects of them all, as well as for the agreeable effects of transparent bodies, whether fluid or solid.