Copy 1, Volume 1

An essay on the origin and prospects of man / [Thomas Hope].

  • Thomas Hope
Date:
1831
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Credit: An essay on the origin and prospects of man / [Thomas Hope]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    our will may be led in the path of that happi- ness, and deterred from the road to suffering ; as long as the sensations we receive themselves follow a certain regular order simultaneous and successive relative to each other, through the knowledge of which that wil] of ours may be more immediately or mediately made to attain such of these sensations as tend to enjoyment, and to avoid others of them that lead to pain. And this order simultaneous and successive these sensations do follow; and as they are the only things of whose intrinsic nature and whose order relative to each other we can have any knowledge, and through which we can attain any idea of the existence or nature of the more exter- nal objects. which they are supposed to represent and to arise from, we shall make the account of them stand for that of the external objects them- selves; begin with that of the most early, most comprehensive and most elementary of them, and from these gradually, as they produce others more late and partial more proximately or more distantly, pass over to the description of those others more late and partial, which through their medium God is pleased to bring forth. Of the first great cause, itself still impercep- tible,—itself still liable to no definite quantity, limits, division—of allthings possessing quantity, and liable to limits and to division, the partial effect, medium and modification, already in some