Elements of Mental Philosophy: Abridged and Designed as a Text-book for Academies and High Schools

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Relation between the sensation and what is outwardly signified
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Statement of the mode or process in visual perception
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Of the original and acquired perceptions of sight
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The idea of extension not originally from sight
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Of the knowledge of the figure of bodies by the sight
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Illustration of the subject from the blind
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Measurements of magnitude by the
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Of objects seen in a mist 41 Of the sun and moon when seen in the horizon
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Of the estimation of distances by sight
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Signs by means of which we estimate distance by sight
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Estimation of distance when unaided by intermediate objects
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Of objects seen on the ocean
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CHAPTER VII
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Of habit in relation to the hearing
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Application of habit to the touch
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Other striking instances of habits of touch
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Habits considered in relation to the sight
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Sensations may possess a relative as well as positive increase of power
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Of habits as modified by particular callings and arts
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outlines and forms of objects
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Notice of some facts which favour the above doctrine
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Additional illustrations of Mr Stewarts doctrine
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CHAPTER VIII
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Of conceptions of objects of sight
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Of the influence of habit on our conceptions
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Influence of habit on conceptions of sight 63 Of the subserviency of our conceptions to description
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Of conceptions attended with a momentary belief
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Conceptions which are joined with perceptions
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Conceptions as connected with fictitious representations
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SIMPLICITY AND COMPLEXNESS OF MENTAL STATES
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CLEARI 73
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General abstract notions the same with genera and species
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OF ATTENTION
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The beginning of knowledge is in the senses
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There may also be internal accessions to knowledge
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Instances of notions which have an internal origin
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CHAPTER XII
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Import of suggestion and its application in Reid and Stewart
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Ideas of existence mind selfexistence and personal identity
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Of the nature of unity and the origin of that notion
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Nature of succession and origin of the idea of succession
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Origin of the notion of duration
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Of our estimate of time in dreaming
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Of time and its measurements and of eternity
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The idea of space not of external origin
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The idea of space has its origin in suggestion
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Of the origin of the idea of power
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Occasions of the origin of the idea of power
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CHAPTER I
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Origin of the ideas of moral merit and demerit
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Of other elements of knowledge developed in suggestion
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Suggestion a source of principles as well as of ideas CHAPTER III
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CHAPTER II
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Further remarks on the proper objects of consciousness
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Consciousnes a ground or law of belief 126 Instances of knowledge developed in consciousness CHAPTER IV
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RELATIVE SUGGESTION OR JUDGMENT 127 Of the susceptibility of perceiving or feeling relations
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Occasions on which feelings of relation may arise
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Of the use of correlative terms 130 Of relations of identity and diversity
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11 Relations of degree and names expressive of them
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III Of relations of proportion
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v Of relations of time 133 IV Of relations of place or position
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vi Of ideas of possession
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VII Of relations of cause and effect
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Of complex terms involving the relation of cause and effect
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Connexion of relative suggestion with reasoning
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CHAPTER V
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Of the general laws of association
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Resemblance the first general law of association
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Of resemblance in the effects produced
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Contrast the second general or primary
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Contiguity the third general or primary
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Cause and effect the fourth primary
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Remarks on the general nature of memory
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Of memory as a ground or law of belief
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Of differences in the strength of memory
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Of circumstantial memory or that species of memory which is based on the relations of contiguity in time and place
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Illustrations of specific or circumstantial memory
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Illustrations of philosophic memory
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Of that species of memory called intentional recollection
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Nature of intentional recollection 162 Instance illustrative of the preceding statements
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Marks of a good memory
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Directions or rules for the improvement of the memory
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Further directions for the improvement of the memory
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Of observance of the truth in connexion with memory
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CHAPTER VIII
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Approval and illustrations of these views from Coleridge
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Use of definitions and axioms in demonstrative reasoning
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Application of the principles of this chapter to education
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Demonstrations do not admit of different degrees of belief
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Connexion of this doctrine with the final judgment and a future life
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Reasoning CHAPTER IX
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Of the nature of moral certainty
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Process of the mind in all cases of reasoning
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Illustration of the preceding statement
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Grounds of the selection of propositions 181
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Reasoning implies the existence of antecedent or assumed propo sitions
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Further considerations on this subject
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Of differences in the power of reasoning
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Of habits of reasoning
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Of reasoning in connexion with language or expression
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Illustration of the foregoing section
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Further remarks on the same subject 209 Illustration from the writings of Dr Reid
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Grounds of the preference of one conception to another
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Illustration of the subject from Milton 219 220 221 222
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Illustration of the statements of the preceding section
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On the utility of the faculty of the imagination
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Importance of the imagination in connexion with reasoning
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CHAPTER XIV
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Of excited conceptions and of apparitions in general 218 Of the less permanent excited conceptions of sight
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Of the less permament excited conceptions of sound 220 First cause of permanently vivid conceptions or apparitions Morbid sensibility of the retina ...
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Third cause of excited conceptions Attacks of fever
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Of disordered or alienated external perception
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Characteristics of emotions of beauty
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Of the power of reasoning in the partially insane
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Of the distinction between beautiful and other objects
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Grounds or occasions of emotions of beauty various
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All objects not equally fitted to cause these emotions
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DIVISION II
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PART I
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Pago
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A susceptibility of emotions of beauty an ultimate principle of our mental constitution
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Remarks on the beauty of forms The circle
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Original or intrinsic beauty The circle 260 Of the beauty of straight and angular forms
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Of square pyramidal and triangular forms
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Of the original or intrinsic beauty of colours
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Further illustrations of the original beauty of colours
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Of sounds considered as a source of beauty
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Further instances of the original beauty of sounds 287 290 267 The permanency of musical power dependent on its being intrinsic
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Of motion as an element of beauty
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Explanation of the beauty of motion from Kaimes
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CHAPTER III
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Objects may become beautiful by association merely
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Further illustrations of associated feelings
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Instances of national associations
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The sources of associated beauty coincident with those of human happiness
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Summary of views in regard to the beautiful
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The occasions of the emotions of sublimity various
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Great extent or expansion an occasion of sublimity 279 Great height an element or occasion of sublimity
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Of depth in connexion with the sublime
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Of colours in connexion with the sublime 282 Of sounds as furnishing an occasion of sublime emotions
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Of motion in connexion with the sublime
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Indications of power accompanied by emotions of the sublime
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Of the original or primary sublimity of objects 286 Considerations in proof of the original sublimity of objects
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Influence of association on emotions of sublimity
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CHAPTER V
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INSTANCES OF OTHER SIMPLE EMOTIONS
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General nature of emotions of the ludicrous 309
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Occasions of emotions of the ludicrous 310
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290 Of what is understood by wit 311 291 Of wit as it consists in burlesque or in debasing objects ib 292 Of wit when employed in aggrandizing obj...
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Of the practical utility of feelings of the ludicrous 314
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CHAPTER III
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Further illustrations of the principle of curiosity
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Of the natural desire of esteem
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Of the desire of esteem as a rule of conduct
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Of the desire of possession
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Of the moral character of the possessory principle
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Of perversions of the possessory desire
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Of the desire of power
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Of the moral character of the desire of power
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Propensity of selflove or the desire of happiness
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Of selfishness as distinguished from selflove
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Reference to the opinions of philosophical writers
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The principle of sociality original in the human mind
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Evidence of the existence of this principle of sociality
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Other illustrations of the existence of this principle
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Relation of the social principle to civil society
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CHAPTER V
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Of the complex nature of the affections
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Of resentment or anger
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Illustrations of instinctive resentment 346 Uses and moral character of instinctive resentment
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Of voluntary in distinction from instinctive resentment
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Tendency of anger to excess and the natural checks to
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Other reasons for checking and subduing the angry passions
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Modifications of resentment 351 Modifications of resentment 352 Modifications of resentment 353 Modifications of resentment 354 Nature of the pa...
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Envy
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Jealousy
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Revenge
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CHAPTER VI
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Love in its various forms characterized by a twofold action 357 Of the parental affection
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The filial affection original or implanted
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Illustrations of the filial affection
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Of the moral character of the domestic affections and of the be 380 nevolent affections generally
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Of the moral character of the voluntary exercises of the benevo lent affections
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Of the connexion between benevolence and rectitude
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Of humanity or the love of the human race
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Further proofs in support of the doctrine of an innate humanity or love for the human race
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Proofs of a humane or philanthropic principle from the existence of benevolent institutions
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Other remarks in proof of the same doctrine
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Of patriotism or love of country
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Of the affection of friendship
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Of the moral character of pity 375 Of the affection of gratitude
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LOVE TO THE SUPREME BEING
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Further illustrations of the results of the absence of this principle
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Of the origin of secondary active principles
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Further proof from language and literature
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Feelings of obligation have particular reference to the future
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Of diversities in moral judgment in connexion with differences
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Of the time when moral instruction ought to cominence
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CHAPTER I
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dection
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Disordered action of the desire of power
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Of sudden and strong impulses of the mind
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Disordered action of the passion of fear
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Of moral accountability in cases of natural or congenital moral
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Side 242 - Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee : I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight? or art thou but A dagger of the mind; a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?
Side 303 - The voice of the Lord is upon the waters: the God of glory thundereth: the Lord is upon many waters.
Side 103 - The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark, When neither is attended ; and, I think The nightingale, if she should sing by day, When every goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren.
Side 182 - Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, Our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain. Awake but one, and lo, what myriads rise ! * Each stamps its image as the other flies.
Side 310 - The sun had long since in the lap Of Thetis taken out his nap, And like a lobster boiled, the morn From black to red began to turn," The imagination modifies images, and gives unity to variety ; it sees all things in one, il piti nelV uno.
Side 120 - This source of ideas every man has wholly in himself; and though it be not sense, as having nothing to do with external objects, yet it is very like it, and might properly enough be called internal sense...
Side 162 - Time but the impression stronger makes, As streams their channels deeper wear.
Side 108 - IN Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree : Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea. So twice five miles of fertile ground With walls and towers were girdled round : And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree ; And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots...
Side 227 - Invention is one of the great marks of genius ; but if we consult experience we shall find, that it is by being conversant with the inventions of others that we learn to invent, as by reading the thoughts of others we learn to think.

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