Letters on Materialism and Hartley's Theory of the Human Mind, Addressed to Dr. Priestley, F.R.S. |
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Page 47 - ... which are always described as having not one common property, by means of which they can affect or act upon each other; the one occupying space, and the other not only not occupying the least imaginable portion of space, but incapable of bearing relation to it; insomuch that, properly speaking, my mind is no more in my body than it is in the moon.
Page 115 - British, to signify that power of the mind which perceives truth, or commands belief, not by progressive argumentation, but by an instantaneous, instinctive, and irresistible impulse ; derived neither from education nor from habit, but from nature...
Page 185 - But sure the nature of a thing is not changed by being known, or known beforehand. For if it is known truly, it is known to be what it is ; and therefore is not altered by this. The truth is, God foresees, or rather sees the actions of free agents, because they will be ; not that they will be, because He foresees them.
Page 186 - K'Xv vb rriTW res inyn» free, and that his going or not going depends merely upon his own 'will. In this cafe he may indeed do either, but yet he can do but one of thefe two things, either go, or not go; and one he muft do. One of thefe...
Page 185 - There is indeed a common prejudice against the prescience (as it is usually called) of God ; which suggests, that if God foreknows things, He foreknows them infallibly or certainly: and if so, then they are certain', and if certain, then they are no longer matter of freedom. And thus prescience and freedom are inconsistent.
Page 128 - Further, as persons who speak the same language have, however, a different use and extent of words, so, though mankind in all ages and nations agree, in general, in their complex and decomplex ideas, yet there are many particular differences in them, and these differences are greater or less, according to the difference or resemblance in age, constitution, education, profession, country, period, &c.
Page 160 - By the mechanism of human actions I mean, that each action results from the previous circumstances of body and mind, in the same manner, and with the same certainty, as other effects do from their mechanical causes; so that a person cannot do indifferently either of the actions A, and its contrary a, while the previous circumstances are the same; but is under an absolute necessity of doing one of them, and that only.
Page 186 - I see an object in a certain place, the veracity of my faculties supposed, it is certain that object is there ; but yet it cannot be said, it is there because I see it there, or that my seeing it there is the cause of its being there ; but because it is there, therefore I see it there.
Page 115 - Senfe*; and acting in a fimilar manner upon ail, or at leaft upon a great majority of mankind, and therefore properly called Com~ тип Senfe.
Page 56 - ... from the fpinal marrow, or the whole nervous fyftem, which is known to be an expanded ramification of the brainy fubftance j or finally, it muft be concluded, that the perceptive power is derived from mere organization : but then, why fhould the agency of an almighty creator be wantonly drawn in to. form this brain, when nature, in her own laboratory, without any new acquired...