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 surprise; that surprise is akin to joy; that joy is akin to happiness; that happiness is the object and end of our whole lives; therefore that he who sits down in a chair without a seat has attained the object and end of his whole life. To the fifth maxim Alciphron (known as "The Minute Philosopher") objects that the number of earwigs required in the composition of a summer-house is, as a matter of fact, 5¾; and he also denies the truth of the sixth maxim, since it is impossible for us to really ascertain whether the sea does not contain even better pipes than have come out of it, and he therefore advocates a wise suspension of judgment on this dubious and obscure question. It has also been opposed by the dogmatic Pipe Philosophers, who deny that pipes ever have come out of the sea, but this objection being founded on a false and misleading doctrine of experience does not merit a serious consideration.

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