But I am afraid I interrupt your thoughts: for you seemed very intent on something. Can there be a pleasanter time of the day, or a more delightful season of the year? That purple sky, those wild but sweet notes of birds, the fragrant bloom upon the trees and flowers, the gentle influence of the rising sun, these and a thousand nameless beauties of nature inspire the soul with secret transports its faculties too being at this time fresh and lively, are fit for those meditations, which the solitude of a garden and tranquillity of the morning naturally dispose us to.

It happened well, to let you see what innocent and agreeable pleasures you lose every morning.

It is indeed something unusual but my thoughts were so taken up with a subject I was discoursing of last night, that finding I could not sleep, I resolved to rise and take a turn in the garden. Good morrow, Hylas: I did not expect to find you abroad so early. THREE DIALOGUES BETWEEN HYLAS AND PHILONOUS, IN OPPOSITION TO SCEPTICS AND ATHEISTS More texts like this one, see The Catalogue This SquaPo version is adapted from the version at, produced by Col Choat and Al Haines. The Complete text of: Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous, in Opposition to Sceptics and Atheists

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