The text to be considered is the essay Of the Standard of Taste by David Hume. The variety of taste is obvious . Taste is even more various in reality than in appearance. It is natural to seek a standard of taste.
All sentiment is right because sentiment has reference to nothing beyond itself.
This is an important truth in aesthetics. It will turn out later in the Essay that Hume also does not think all sentiment is right. Notice this claim, commonly rejected by postmodernists and literary theory, that there are matters of fact, for Hume, outside, beyond, or better, independent of, our own minds or their contents, contents such as our emotions. The postmodernist is more likely to say there are no matters of fact outside language . Notice the deplorable tendency among philosophers to exaggerate.