An inquiry into the human mind, on the principles of common sense / By Thomas Reid.

  • Thomas Reid
Date:
1769
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Credit: An inquiry into the human mind, on the principles of common sense / By Thomas Reid. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    pieces, our admiration ceafes,; we comprehend the whole art of the maker. How unlike is it to that which it reprefents! what a poor piece of work compared with the body of aman, whofe {truéture the more we know, the more won- ders we difcover in it, and the more fenfible we are of our ignorance! Is the mechanifm of the mind fo eafily comprehended, when that of the body is fo dificult? Yet, by this fyftem, three laws of affociation, joined to a few original feel- ings, explain the whole mechanifm of fenfe, ima- gination, memory, belief, and of all the actions and paffions of the mind. Is this the man that Nature made? I fufpect it is not fo eafy to look behind the fcenes in Nature’s work. This is a puppet furely, contrived by too bold an appren- tice of Nature, to mimic her work. It fhews to- lerably by candle light, but brought into clear day, and taken to pieces, it will appear to be a man made with mortar and atrowel. The more we know of other parts of nature, the more we like and approve them. The little | know of the planetary fyftem; of the earth which we inha- bit; of minerals, vegetables, and animals; of my own body, and of the laws which obtain in thefe partsof nature, openstomy mind grand and beau- tiful fcenes, and contributes equally to my hap- pinefs and power. But when I look within, and confider the mind itfelf, which makes me capa- ble of all thefe profpects and enjoyments ; if it is indeed what the Treaii/e of human natyre makes ir, I find ] have been only in an inchanted caltle, B 3 impoted
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