Volume 1

Observations on man, his frame, his duty, and his expectations. In two parts / By David Hartley.

  • Hartley, David, 1705-1757.
Date:
1749
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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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4. Our Pofleflion or Want of the Means of Hap- jpinefs, and Security from, or Subjedlion' to, the Ha¬ zards of Mifery; 5. The Pleafures and Pains of our Fellow-Crea- tures; 6. The Affedlions excited in us by the Contem¬ plation of the Deity ; or, 7. Moral Beauty and Deformity. The Human Mind may alfo be confidered as in¬ dued with the Faculties of Memory, Imagination or Fancy, Underftanding, Affelfion, and Will. Memory is that Faculty, by which Traces of Senfa- dons and Ideas recur, or are recalled, in the fame Order and Proportion, accurately or nearly, as they were once adtually prefented. When Ideas, and Trains of Ideas, occur, or are called up, in a vivid manner, and without regard to the Order of former actual Impreflions and Percep¬ tions, this is faid to be done by the Power of Imagi¬ nation or Fancy. The Underftanding is that Faculty, by which we contemplate mere Senfations and Ideas, purfue Truth, and aflent to, or diflent from, Proportions. The Affections have the Pleafures and Pains for their Objedts ; as the Underftanding has the mere Senfations and Ideas. By the Affedlions we are ex¬ cited to purfue Happinefs, and all its Means, fly from Mifery, and all its apparent Caufes. The JVill is that State of Mind, which is imme¬ diately previous to, and caufes, thofe exprefs Adis of Memory, Fancy, and bodily Motion, which are termed voluntary. The Motions of the Body are of two kinds, automa¬ tic and voluntary. The automatic Motions are thofe which arife from the Mechanifm of the Body in an evi¬ dent manner. They are called automatic, from their Refemblance to the Motions of Automata, or Ma¬ chines, whofe Principle of Motion is within themfelves. B a Of