The Refined Reflections of Philosophy

Ellie: I'm almost of the opinion that what he is saying in the second part is that he's conflating people who, whose sentiments already are such that they can enjoy some of these like philosophical considerations and scientific study and inquiry. He gets back to saying things like the reflections of philosophy are too subtle and distant to take place in common life or eradicate any affection. The air is too fine to breathe in where it is above the winds and clouds of the atmosphere. And then he says, look, these refined reflections which philosophy suggests to us is that commonly they cannot diminish or extinguish our vicious passions without diminishing or extinguishing such as our virtuous and rendering the mind totally indifferent or