The Philosophical Works of the Late Right Honorable Henry St. John, Lord Viscount Bolingbroke, Tom 1David Mallet, 1754 - 379 |
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... animals to be automates , or we allow them inftinct , or we bestow graciously upon them , at the utmoft ftretch of liberality , an irra tional foul , fomething we know not what , but fomething that can claim no kindred to the hu- man ...
... animals to be automates , or we allow them inftinct , or we bestow graciously upon them , at the utmoft ftretch of liberality , an irra tional foul , fomething we know not what , but fomething that can claim no kindred to the hu- man ...
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... animals . Let us content ourfelves there- fore to trace his mind , to obferve it's growth , and the progress it makes from it's infancy to it's maturity . Let us be content with particular , and experimental knowledge , upon which we ...
... animals . Let us content ourfelves there- fore to trace his mind , to obferve it's growth , and the progress it makes from it's infancy to it's maturity . Let us be content with particular , and experimental knowledge , upon which we ...
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... animal kind . The fa culties that come in play afterwards seem to be active , but this feems to be paffive ; for we per- ceive ideas , however raised in the mind , whe- ther we will or no : their effe is percipi ; to have them we must ...
... animal kind . The fa culties that come in play afterwards seem to be active , but this feems to be paffive ; for we per- ceive ideas , however raised in the mind , whe- ther we will or no : their effe is percipi ; to have them we must ...
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... animal fenfe , which some philofo- phers hold in great contempt , and which does not deserve much esteem , communicates to us our firft ideas , fets the mind firft to work , and be- comes in conjunction with internal fenfe , by which we ...
... animal fenfe , which some philofo- phers hold in great contempt , and which does not deserve much esteem , communicates to us our firft ideas , fets the mind firft to work , and be- comes in conjunction with internal fenfe , by which we ...
Strona 33
... , as soon as men ceased to range the woods and plains in common , like their fel- low animals , if they ever did fo ; as soon as focie- VOL . I. D ties ties were formed , and in thofe focieties a divifion Effay i . PHILOSOPHICAL WORKS 33.
... , as soon as men ceased to range the woods and plains in common , like their fel- low animals , if they ever did fo ; as soon as focie- VOL . I. D ties ties were formed , and in thofe focieties a divifion Effay i . PHILOSOPHICAL WORKS 33.
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Strona 94 - Bred to think as well as speak by rote, they furnish their minds, as they furnish their houses, or clothe their bodies, with the fancies of other men, and according to the mode of the age and country. They pick up their ideas and notions in common conversation, or in their schools. The first are always superficial, and both are commonly false.
Strona 302 - The whole world appears, as soon as we come into historical light, overrun with them. The vulgar embrace them easily, even after the true doctrine of a divine unity has been taught and received...
Strona 287 - Plato imagined, after more ancient philosophers, that every man is born with a certain reminiscence, and that when we seem to be taught, we are only put in mind of what we knew in a former state.