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    Supports→Beauty arises from the arrangement of parts in a way fitted to produce pleasure in the soul.

    An order and construction of parts can be fitted to give pleasure by the primary constitution of our nature, by custom, or by caprice.

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    Beauty is such an order and construction of parts as, either by the primary constitution of our nature, by custom, or by caprice, is fitted to give a pleasure and satisfaction to the soul. … Pleasure and pain, therefore, are not only necessary attendants of beauty and deformity, but constitute their very essence. (Hume 1740, 299)

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