Volume 3

Essays on the powers of the human mind; to which are prefixed, an essay on quantity, and an analysis of Aristotle's logic / By Thomas Reid.

  • Reid, Thomas, 1710-1796.
Date:
1812
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    144 ESSAY III. [CHAP* I. of habit; but, in inanimate matter, I know no¬ thing that resembles it. A stone loses nothing of its weight by being long supported, or made to move upward. A bo¬ dy by being tossed about ever so long, or ever so violently, loses nothing of its Inertia, nor acquires the least disposition to change its state, *<s\ , rrj'fjff p ■ . ■' ' • V •’’•••, s /'■ « v • • t vi _js H J w * >• - > jl : . ' A i - ♦ .#. ' /• i’ 0. ; S r : fy v • • • • - ESSAY III. PART II. OF ANIMAL PRINCIPLES OF ACTION, CHAP. I. - ?• >• ,, . r ^ -i OF APPETITES. Having discoursed of the mechanical principles of action, I proceed to consider those I called animal. They are such as operate upon the will and in¬ tention, but do not suppose any exercise of judg¬ ment or reason ; and are most of them to be found in some brute-animals, as well as in man. In this class, the first kind I shall call appetites, taking that word in a stricter sense than it is some¬ times taken, even by good writers.