Philosophical essays / by Dugald Stewart.

  • Dugald Stewart
Date:
1811
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Credit: Philosophical essays / by Dugald Stewart. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tf, ‘but its Aiseicinaiteect aes at? ia on J ing on these, he tells us. expressly, is, “that those wl ‘¢ have. children, or the > charge of their education, may ¢ think it worth their while diligently to watch, andicare- ‘« fully to prevent the undue connection of ideas’in the , ‘s minds of young people.. This (he adds) is the time Wroat susceptible of lasting impressions; and. though © *¢ those relating to the health of the body are, by discret “« Sesities minded and fenced against; yet I am apt t ‘* doubt, that those which relate more peculiarly to th “ mind, and terminate in the understanding, or passiolis, ' « have been much less heeded than the thing deserves; nay, those relating purely to the understanding have, ‘as I suspect, been by most men wholly overlooked.” » _. From these quotations, it is evident that Mr. Locke meant to comprehend, under the association:ef ideas, those Associations alone, which, for the sake of distinc- tion, | have characterized, in my. former work, by. the epithet casual. ‘To such as arise out of the nature and condition of Man (and which, in the following Essays, I . generally denominate Universal Associations), Mr Locke gives the title of Natural Connections; observing, with regard’ to them, that “ it is the office and excellency of “reason to trace them, and to hold them. together in Ss union.” If his language on this head had been more closely it nitared by his successors, many of the errorsand false: ‘refinements would have been + avoided, into’ which they have fallen. Mr Hume v as ‘one of the first who dev 1 ated from it, by the enlarg yed sense in which he used Association in his writings; comprehending under that ; es a term, all the various connections or affinities among ¢ our kis ideas, natural as well as casual; and even going so far as Fi , a a
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