Volume 1
Observations on man, his frame, his duty, and his expectations. In two parts / By David Hartley.
- Hartley, David, 1705-1757.
- Date:
- 1749
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Observations on man, his frame, his duty, and his expectations. In two parts / By David Hartley. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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- Found on image 29 / 552…CT. IV. Of Memory. An Inquiry how far the Phenomena of Memory -are agreeable to the foregoing Theory, 374—382. SECT. V. Of Imagination, Reveries, and Dreams. An Inquiry how far the Phanomena of Imagination, Reveries, and Dreams, are agreeable to the foregoing Theory, 383—389. SECT. VI. Of Imperfections in ...
- Found on image 29 / 552…eable to the foregoing Theory, 374—382. SECT. V. Of Imagination, Reveries, and Dreams. An Inquiry how far the Phanomena of Imagination, Reveries, and Dreams, are agreeable to the foregoing Theory, 383—389. SECT. VI. Of Imperfections in the rational Faculty. An Inquiry how far Deviations from found Reafon, ...
- Found on image 86 / 552 (page 54)…d Organs of Digeftion ; alfo in the Regions correfponding to the Eye and Ear, where they excite the Trains of Images which are prefented to us in our Dreams. But the Nature of thefe cannot be unfolded till we have treated of Ideas, their Generation and Affociations, Afibciations, and the Nature of true and...
- Found on image 89 / 552 (page 57)…fame Orders were obferved refpeflively. And though it happens, that Trains of vifible and audible Ideas are presented in Sallies of the Fancy, and in Dreams, in which the Order of Time and Place is different from that of any former Impreffions, yet the fmall component Parts of thefe Trains are Copies of fo...
- Found on image 103 / 552 (page 71)…of the Head, Neck, Body, Legs, and Tail, peculiar to this Animal, ftuck to each other m the Fancy, from frequent joint Impreffion. And, therefore, in Dreams, where complex Affociations are much weakened, and various Parcels of vifible Ideas, not joined in Nature, ftartup together in the Fancy, contiguous t...
- Found on image 199 / 552 (page 167)…end upon Melancholy, Fear, and Sorrow. It appears alfo to me, that thefe States are introduced, in a great Degree, during Sleep, during the frightful Dreams, Agitations, and Oppreffions, that Excels in Diet oecafions in the Night. Thefe Dreams and Dilord ers are often forgotten; but the uneafy States of Bo...
- Found on image 199 / 552 (page 167)…roduced, in a great Degree, during Sleep, during the frightful Dreams, Agitations, and Oppreffions, that Excels in Diet oecafions in the Night. Thefe Dreams and Dilord ers are often forgotten; but the uneafy States of Body, which then happen, leave Veftiges of them- felves, which increafe in Number and St...
- Found on image 245 / 552 (page 213)…being fo obvious, as might otherwife be expected ; however, the fame thing is common in many other Cafes. The Trains of vifible Ideas, which occur in Dreams, are Reducible, partly from the Sympathy here mentioned, partly from that of the laft Paragraph. Eleventhly, Our Stock of vifible Ideas may be conftde...
- Found on image 266 / 552 (page 234)…much with the fame Perfon, in general Diforders of the Brain, or particular ones of the nervous fpafmodic Kind in the Stomach, after taking Opium, in Dreams, in Madnefs, Trains of audible Ideas force themfelves upon the Fancy, in nearly the fame manner, as Trains of vifible Ideas do in like Cafes. And it m...
- Found on image 410 / 552 (page 378)…pofe upon themfelves in this way; viz. from the Vividnefs of their Ideas and Affociations, produced by bodily Caufes. The fame thing often happens in Dreams. The Vividnefs of the new Scene often makes it appear like one that we remember, and are well acquainted with. Thirdly, If the fpecific Nature of Memo...
- Found on image 412 / 552 (page 380)…k place during the preternatural State of the Brain, i, 8. during his Illnefs, are all obliterated by the Return of the natural State. In like manner Dreams, which happen in a peculiar State of the Brain, i. e, in Sleep, vanifh, vanifh, as foo.n as Vigilance, a different State, takes place. But if they be ...
- Found on image 415 / 552 (page 383)…t no Man can have a ftrong Judgment with a weak original Power of retaining and remembring. SECT, 3S3 SECT. V. I 1 > .j Of Imagination, Reveries, and Dreams. PROP. 91. examine how far the Phenomena of Tmagi- nation, Reroe? les, and jDreant$} arc agreeable to the foregoing Theory. * * A*'-' THE Recurrence o...
- Found on image 416 / 552 (page 384)… little or much. But this Exception is as agreeable to the foregoing Theory, as the general Prevalence of Aftociation juft laid down. We come next to Dreams. I fay then, thatDreanis are nothing but the Imaginations, Fancies, or Reveries of a lleeping Man ; and that they are deducible from the Three followi...
- Found on image 416 / 552 (page 384)…, and particularly thofe of the preceding Day. Secondly, The State of the Body, particularly of the Stomach and Brain, And, Thirdly, Adociation. That Dreams are, in part, deducible from thelm- preftions and Ideas of the preceding Day,appears from the frequent Recurrence of thefe in greater or leffer Clutt...
- Found on image 416 / 552 (page 384)…nd Ideas of the preceding Day,appears from the frequent Recurrence of thefe in greater or leffer Clutters, and efpecially of the vifible ones, in our Dreams. We fometimes take in Ideas of longer Date, in part, on account of their Recency: However, in general. Ideas that have not affeded the Mind for fame D...
- Found on image 416 / 552 (page 384)…take in Ideas of longer Date, in part, on account of their Recency: However, in general. Ideas that have not affeded the Mind for fame Days, recur in Dreams only from the 2d or 3d Caufe here afiigned. That the State of the Body affeds our Dreams, is evident from the Dreams of fick Perfons, and of thofe wh...
- Found on image 416 / 552 (page 384)…Ideas that have not affeded the Mind for fame Days, recur in Dreams only from the 2d or 3d Caufe here afiigned. That the State of the Body affeds our Dreams, is evident from the Dreams of fick Perfons, and of thofe who labour under Indigeftions, Spafms, and Flatulencies. L^ftly, We may perceive ourfelves t...
- Found on image 416 / 552 (page 384)…the Mind for fame Days, recur in Dreams only from the 2d or 3d Caufe here afiigned. That the State of the Body affeds our Dreams, is evident from the Dreams of fick Perfons, and of thofe who labour under Indigeftions, Spafms, and Flatulencies. L^ftly, We may perceive ourfelves to be carried on from one th...
- Found on image 416 / 552 (page 384)…of thofe who labour under Indigeftions, Spafms, and Flatulencies. L^ftly, We may perceive ourfelves to be carried on from one thing to another in our Dreams partly by Aflbciation. It is alfo highly agreeable to the foregoing Theory to exped, that each of the Three foregoing Caufes fhould have an Influence...
- Found on image 416 / 552 (page 384)…le to the foregoing Theory to exped, that each of the Three foregoing Caufes fhould have an Influence upon the Trains of Ideas, that are prefented in Dreams. Let us now fee how we can folve the moft ufual Phenomena of Dreams upon thefe Principles. Firft, then, The Scenes which prefent themfelves are taken ...
- Found on image 416 / 552 (page 384)…g Caufes fhould have an Influence upon the Trains of Ideas, that are prefented in Dreams. Let us now fee how we can folve the moft ufual Phenomena of Dreams upon thefe Principles. Firft, then, The Scenes which prefent themfelves are taken to be real. We do not confider them as the Work of the Fancy ; but ...
- Found on image 417 / 552 (page 385)…aken to be real. We do not confider them as the Work of the Fancy ; but fuppofe ourfelves prefent, and adually feeing and hearing what pafTes. Now Of Dreams. 3 8 f Now this happens, Firft, BeCaufe we have no other Reality to oppofe to the Ideas which offer themfelves, whereas in the common Fi£lions of the ...
- Found on image 417 / 552 (page 385)… Senfes, and precluding a like Miftake there i Or, if we become quite inattentive to external Objects, the Reverie does fo far put on the Nature of a Dream, as to appear a Reality, —Secondly, The Trains of vifible Ideas, which occur in Dreams, are far more vivid than common vifible Ideas; and therefore ma...
- Found on image 417 / 552 (page 385)…xternal Objects, the Reverie does fo far put on the Nature of a Dream, as to appear a Reality, —Secondly, The Trains of vifible Ideas, which occur in Dreams, are far more vivid than common vifible Ideas; and therefore may the more eafily be taken for a6tual Impreffions. For what Reafons thefe Ideas ihould ...
- Found on image 417 / 552 (page 385)…aches of Sleep ; all the vifible Ideas beginning then to be more than ufually glaring. Secondly, There is a great Wildnefs and Incon- fiftency in our Dreams. For the Brain, during Sleep, is in a State fo different from that in which the ufual Affociations were formed, that they can by no means take place a...
- Found on image 417 / 552 (page 385)…haflly ones, according as the Opium excites pleafant or painful Vibrations in the Stomach. Hence it will follow, that Ideas will rife fucceffively in Dreams, which have no fuch Connexion as takes place in Nature, in a6tual Imprefiions, nor any fuch as is deducible from Affo- ciation. And yet, if they rife ...
- Found on image 418 / 552 (page 386)…ively. But if the bodily State be fuch as favours Ideas of Anxiety and Perplexity, then the Inconfiftency, and apparent Impoffibility, op- curring in Dreams, are apt to give great Difturbance and Uneafinels. It is to be obierved likewife, that we forget the feveral Parts of our Dreams very faff: in palling...
- Found on image 418 / 552 (page 386)…lity, op- curring in Dreams, are apt to give great Difturbance and Uneafinels. It is to be obierved likewife, that we forget the feveral Parts of our Dreams very faff: in palling from one to another * and that this ieffens the apparent Inconfiftencies, and their Influences. Fourthly, It is common in Dream...
- Found on image 418 / 552 (page 386)…reams very faff: in palling from one to another * and that this ieffens the apparent Inconfiftencies, and their Influences. Fourthly, It is common in Dreams for Perfons to appear to themfelves to be transferred from one Place to another, by a kind of failing or flying Motion. This arifes from the Change o...
- Found on image 419 / 552 (page 387)…peak, and at, pro re nata, from Moment to Moment, yet they forget all immediately, fomewhat refemble the Perfons who walk and talk in Sleep. Fifthly, Dreams confift: chiefly of vifible Imagery. This agrees remarkably with the perpetual Impreflions made upon the optic Nerves and correfponding Parts of the ...
- Found on image 419 / 552 (page 387)…rts of the Brain during Vigilance, and with the Diftint- nefs and Vividnefs of the Images imprefied. We may obferve alfo, that the vifible Imagery in Dreams is compofed, in a confiderable Degree, of Fragments of vifible Appearances lately imprefied. For the Difpofition to thefe Vibrations muft be greater ...
- Found on image 419 / 552 (page 387)…ances, that it is difficult to trace them up to the preceding Day ; the Shortnefs of our Memory contributing alfo not a little thereto. It happens in Dreams, that the fame fictitious Places are prefented again and again at the Diftance of Vv eeks and Months, perhaps during the whole Courfe of ! Life. Thefe...
- Found on image 420 / 552 (page 388)… are, I fuppofe, compounded at C c 2 firft. firft, probably early in Youth, of Fragments of feat Places, which we have feen. They afterwards recur in Dreams* becaufe the fame State of Brain recurs ; and when this has happened for fome Succeflions, they may be expected to recur at Intervals during. Life. Bu...
- Found on image 420 / 552 (page 388)…lly before frequent Recurrency has eftabliftied and fixed them. Sixthly, It has been obferved already, that many of the Things which are prefented in Dreams, appear to be remembred by us, or,, at leaft, as familiar to us ; and that this may be folved by the Readinefs with which they Hart up, and fucceed on...
- Found on image 420 / 552 (page 388)…d that this may be folved by the Readinefs with which they Hart up, and fucceed one another, in the Fancy* Seventhly, It has alfo been remarked* that Dreams ought to be foon forgotten, as they are in fad ; becaufe the State of the Brain fuffers great Changes in palling from Sleep to Vigilance. The Wildnef...
- Found on image 420 / 552 (page 388)…, as they are in fad ; becaufe the State of the Brain fuffers great Changes in palling from Sleep to Vigilance. The Wildnefs and Inconfiftency of our Dreams render them ftill more liable to be; forgotten. It is faid, that a Man may remember his Dreams bell by continuing in the fame Pofture in which he dre...
- Found on image 420 / 552 (page 388)…ep to Vigilance. The Wildnefs and Inconfiftency of our Dreams render them ftill more liable to be; forgotten. It is faid, that a Man may remember his Dreams bell by continuing in the fame Pofture in which he dreamt •, which, if true, would be a remarkable Confirmation of the Dodrine of Vibrations ; fince ...
- Found on image 420 / 552 (page 388)…ams render them ftill more liable to be; forgotten. It is faid, that a Man may remember his Dreams bell by continuing in the fame Pofture in which he dreamt •, which, if true, would be a remarkable Confirmation of the Dodrine of Vibrations ; fince thofe which take place in the medullary Subftance of the B...
- Found on image 420 / 552 (page 388)…ations ; fince thofe which take place in the medullary Subftance of the Brain would be leaft difturb- ed and obliterated by this means. Eighthly, The Dreams which are prefented in the jfirft Part of the Night are, for the moft part, much more confufed, irregular, and difficult to be remembred, than thofe ...
- Found on image 420 / 552 (page 388)…e prefented in the jfirft Part of the Night are, for the moft part, much more confufed, irregular, and difficult to be remembred, than thofe which we dream towards the Morning j and thefe laft are often rational to a confiderable Degree, and regulated according to the ufual Courfe of our Affociasions* Fo...
- Found on image 420 / 552 (page 388)…e of Vigilance, or that in which. tl>e ufual Alfociations were formed and cemented. However, Alfociation has fome Power even in wild and inconfiftent Dreams. CoRo Cor. i. As the Prophecies were, many of them* communicated in the way of divine Vifions, Trances* or Dreams, fo they bear many of the foregoing ...
- Found on image 421 / 552 (page 389)…Power even in wild and inconfiftent Dreams. CoRo Cor. i. As the Prophecies were, many of them* communicated in the way of divine Vifions, Trances* or Dreams, fo they bear many of the foregoing Marks of Dreams. Thus they deal chiefly in vifibie Imagery; they abound with apparent ImpofTibiiities, and Deviati...
- Found on image 421 / 552 (page 389)…. i. As the Prophecies were, many of them* communicated in the way of divine Vifions, Trances* or Dreams, fo they bear many of the foregoing Marks of Dreams. Thus they deal chiefly in vifibie Imagery; they abound with apparent ImpofTibiiities, and Deviations from common Life, of which yet the Prophets take...
- Found on image 421 / 552 (page 389)…t thefe, and fuch-like Criterions might eftablifh the Ge~ nuinenefs of the Prophecies, exclufively of all other Evidences. Cor. 2. TheWildnefs of our Dreams feems to be of fingular Ufe to us, by interrupting and breaking the Courfe of our Affociations. For, if we were always awake, fome accidental Afifoci...
- Found on image 421 / 552 (page 389)…. Cor. 3. A Perfon may form a Judgment of the State of his bodily Health, and of his Temperance, by the general Pleafantnefs or Unpleafantnefs of his Dreams. There are alfo many ufeful Hints relating •to the Strength of our Paflions deducible from them. u *. SECT- SECT. VI. Of Imperfection; in the rational...
- Found on image 424 / 552 (page 392)…in itfelf in a languilhing State ; for there feems to be a confiderableRelemblance between the Inconliftencies of lorne Kinds of Dotage, and thole of Dreams. Befides which it may be obferved, that in Dotage the Perfon is often ftuggilh and lethargic and that as a Defett of the nutritive Faculty in the Brai...
- Found on image 432 / 552 (page 400)…nd violate the Rules of Decency and Virtue (the Affociations of this Kind being overpowered, as it were, in the fame manner as they are fometirnes in Dreams), wre may reckon the Diftemper to have paffed into Madnefs, ftriClly fo called *, of which I now come to fpeak in a general brief way. Of Madnefs. The ...
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