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"First then I lay down, as an undeniable Truth, that we have in common with other Animals a certain Machine of a curious and exquisite Workmanship, the principal Springs whereof are Imagination and Memory. If we carefully examine this Machine, we shall find it exactly the same in Men and Beasts, every thing being done in both in a manner merely passive and necessary. To be convinced of this, let us but consider that all outward Objects do, by the exterior Organs of Sensation, send into the Brain certain Images, which meeting with the animal Spirits aptly disposed, excite in the Machine some determined Motion or other. The Machine itself is incapable of any Choice, but is always actuated by the strongest Impression, which generally depends on the Disposition it is in at the Very Instant it receives it.
(p. 185)",2013-07-08 19:53:28 UTC,"""First then I lay down, as an undeniable Truth, that we have in common with other Animals a certain Machine of a curious and exquisite Workmanship, the principal Springs whereof are Imagination and Memory.""",2013-07-08 19:46:17 UTC,"","",,"","","Reading Dennis Todd's Imagining Monsters (University of Chicago Press, 1995), p. 137.",21522,7509
"I now proceed to Memory, which is nothing but the same Imagination acting without the assistance of exterior Objects. To explain this, we must consider that the first Image which an outward Object imprints on our Brain is very slight; it resembles a thin Vapour which dwindles into nothing, without leaving the least track after it. But if the same Object successively offers itself several times, the Image it occasions thereby increases and strengthens itself by degrees, till at last it acquires such a consistency (if I may so call it) as makes it subsist as long as the Machine itself. A Stock of Images having been thus acquired, they each have their respective little Cell or Lodge, where they go and hide. Yet we must not suppose that they are continually in their Retirement; they would become useless if they were so. But on the contrary, great Numbers of them are always going to and fro; and if one of them chances to go by the Cell or Lodge of another which has the least real or imaginary conformity with it, out pops the retired Image, and immediately joins the wandering one. This never so obviously happens, as when a new Image is introduced into the Brain, who as soon as he appears, occasions great Commotions among all the old Inhabitants who either have, or think they have, any resemblance or relation to the new Comers.
(pp. 186-7)",2013-07-08 19:53:17 UTC,"""To explain this, we must consider that the first Image which an outward Object imprints on our Brain is very slight; it resembles a thin Vapour which dwindles into nothing, without leaving the least track after it. But if the same Object successively offers itself several times, the Image it occasions thereby increases and strengthens itself by degrees, till at last it acquires such a consistency (if I may so call it) as makes it subsist as long as the Machine itself. A Stock of Images having been thus acquired, they each have their respective little Cell or Lodge, where they go and hide.""",2013-07-08 19:49:43 UTC,"","",,Impressions and Rooms,"","Reading Dennis Todd's Imagining Monsters (University of Chicago Press, 1995), 137.
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"I now proceed to Memory, which is nothing but the same Imagination acting without the assistance of exterior Objects. To explain this, we must consider that the first Image which an outward Object imprints on our Brain is very slight; it resembles a thin Vapour which dwindles into nothing, without leaving the least track after it. But if the same Object successively offers itself several times, the Image it occasions thereby increases and strengthens itself by degrees, till at last it acquires such a consistency (if I may so call it) as makes it subsist as long as the Machine itself. A Stock of Images having been thus acquired, they each have their respective little Cell or Lodge, where they go and hide. Yet we must not suppose that they are continually in their Retirement; they would become useless if they were so. But on the contrary, great Numbers of them are always going to and fro; and if one of them chances to go by the Cell or Lodge of another which has the least real or imaginary conformity with it, out pops the retired Image, and immediately joins the wandering one. This never so obviously happens, as when a new Image is introduced into the Brain, who as soon as he appears, occasions great Commotions among all the old Inhabitants who either have, or think they have, any resemblance or relation to the new Comers.
(pp. 186-7)",2013-07-08 19:52:33 UTC,"""Yet we must not suppose that they are continually in their Retirement; they would become useless if they were so. But on the contrary, great Numbers of them are always going to and fro; and if one of them chances to go by the Cell or Lodge of another which has the least real or imaginary conformity with it, out pops the retired Image, and immediately joins the wandering one. This never so obviously happens, as when a new Image is introduced into the Brain, who as soon as he appears, occasions great Commotions among all the old Inhabitants who either have, or think they have, any resemblance or relation to the new Comers.""",2013-07-08 19:51:54 UTC,"","",,Inhabitants and Rooms,"","Reading Dennis Todd's Imagining Monsters (University of Chicago Press, 1995), 137.
",21524,7509
"Now, according to my supposition, there being no active intelligent Being, who, by his Presence and Superintendency, governs and directs the Course of those vagabond Images, every thing in the Brain resembles the fortuitous concourse of Atoms. Two Images meet, and unite to each other; these two meeting with a third, it unites to them in the same manner: and this Meeting and Union continuing for some time, at last occasions a most monstrous Aggregation, very like the Chaos of the Poet, where
Frigida cum calidis pugnant, humentia siccis.
These united Images do sometimes separate from each other with the same facility they had joined, just like the fashionable way of marrying among the Quality; at other times, they maintain themselves in their Union, like poor Folks, without ever getting asunder; especially when this Union is the Effect of Chance, but more particularly when one Animal has thrust a whole Train of Images linked together into the Brain of another. In this last Case one Image of this sort never appears without its whole Retinue; and if a straggling one, in its progress thro' the Brain, chances to strike any of this Chain, all the others will appear, and chime to the last link. These sorts of Chains are what we call Habits; the Temper and Passions strengthen them, and they, in grateful return, strengthen the Temper and Passions.
(pp. 187-8)",2013-07-08 19:55:44 UTC,"""Now, according to my supposition, there being no active intelligent Being, who, by his Presence and Superintendency, governs and directs the Course of those vagabond Images, every thing in the Brain resembles the fortuitous concourse of Atoms.""",2013-07-08 19:55:44 UTC,"","",,Inhabitants,"","Reading Dennis Todd's Imagining Monsters (University of Chicago Press, 1995), 137.",21525,7509
"Now, according to my supposition, there being no active intelligent Being, who, by his Presence and Superintendency, governs and directs the Course of those vagabond Images, every thing in the Brain resembles the fortuitous concourse of Atoms. Two Images meet, and unite to each other; these two meeting with a third, it unites to them in the same manner: and this Meeting and Union continuing for some time, at last occasions a most monstrous Aggregation, very like the Chaos of the Poet, where
Frigida cum calidis pugnant, humentia siccis.
These united Images do sometimes separate from each other with the same facility they had joined, just like the fashionable way of marrying among the Quality; at other times, they maintain themselves in their Union, like poor Folks, without ever getting asunder; especially when this Union is the Effect of Chance, but more particularly when one Animal has thrust a whole Train of Images linked together into the Brain of another. In this last Case one Image of this sort never appears without its whole Retinue; and if a straggling one, in its progress thro' the Brain, chances to strike any of this Chain, all the others will appear, and chime to the last link. These sorts of Chains are what we call Habits; the Temper and Passions strengthen them, and they, in grateful return, strengthen the Temper and Passions.
(pp. 187-8)",2013-07-08 19:58:00 UTC,"""Two Images meet, and unite to each other; these two meeting with a third, it unites to them in the same manner: and this Meeting and Union continuing for some time, at last occasions a most monstrous Aggregation, very like the Chaos of the Poet, where 'Frigida cum calidis pugnant, humentia siccis.'""",2013-07-08 19:57:33 UTC,"","",,Inhabitants,"","Reading Dennis Todd's Imagining Monsters (University of Chicago Press, 1995), 137.",21526,7509
"Now, according to my supposition, there being no active intelligent Being, who, by his Presence and Superintendency, governs and directs the Course of those vagabond Images, every thing in the Brain resembles the fortuitous concourse of Atoms. Two Images meet, and unite to each other; these two meeting with a third, it unites to them in the same manner: and this Meeting and Union continuing for some time, at last occasions a most monstrous Aggregation, very like the Chaos of the Poet, where
Frigida cum calidis pugnant, humentia siccis.
These united Images do sometimes separate from each other with the same facility they had joined, just like the fashionable way of marrying among the Quality; at other times, they maintain themselves in their Union, like poor Folks, without ever getting asunder; especially when this Union is the Effect of Chance, but more particularly when one Animal has thrust a whole Train of Images linked together into the Brain of another. In this last Case one Image of this sort never appears without its whole Retinue; and if a straggling one, in its progress thro' the Brain, chances to strike any of this Chain, all the others will appear, and chime to the last link. These sorts of Chains are what we call Habits; the Temper and Passions strengthen them, and they, in grateful return, strengthen the Temper and Passions.
(pp. 187-8)",2013-07-08 20:00:07 UTC,"""These united Images do sometimes separate from each other with the same facility they had joined, just like the fashionable way of marrying among the Quality; at other times, they maintain themselves in their Union, like poor Folks, without ever getting asunder; especially when this Union is the Effect of Chance, but more particularly when one Animal has thrust a whole Train of Images linked together into the Brain of another.""",2013-07-08 20:00:07 UTC,"","",,Inhabitants,"",Reading,21527,7509
"Now, according to my supposition, there being no active intelligent Being, who, by his Presence and Superintendency, governs and directs the Course of those vagabond Images, every thing in the Brain resembles the fortuitous concourse of Atoms. Two Images meet, and unite to each other; these two meeting with a third, it unites to them in the same manner: and this Meeting and Union continuing for some time, at last occasions a most monstrous Aggregation, very like the Chaos of the Poet, where
Frigida cum calidis pugnant, humentia siccis.
These united Images do sometimes separate from each other with the same facility they had joined, just like the fashionable way of marrying among the Quality; at other times, they maintain themselves in their Union, like poor Folks, without ever getting asunder; especially when this Union is the Effect of Chance, but more particularly when one Animal has thrust a whole Train of Images linked together into the Brain of another. In this last Case one Image of this sort never appears without its whole Retinue; and if a straggling one, in its progress thro' the Brain, chances to strike any of this Chain, all the others will appear, and chime to the last link. These sorts of Chains are what we call Habits; the Temper and Passions strengthen them, and they, in grateful return, strengthen the Temper and Passions.
(pp. 187-8)",2013-07-08 20:01:29 UTC,"""In this last Case one Image of this sort never appears without its whole Retinue; and if a straggling one, in its progress thro' the Brain, chances to strike any of this Chain, all the others will appear, and chime to the last link. These sorts of Chains are what we call Habits; the Temper and Passions strengthen them, and they, in grateful return, strengthen the Temper and Passions.""",2013-07-08 20:01:29 UTC,"","",,Fetters and Inhabitants,"",Reading,21528,7509
"No one will deny Education, generally speaking, to influence every Man in the part he is to act in the World. And what is Education, for the most part, but stocking a Child's Brain with Chains of Images? Horace somewhere or other introduces a Carpenter deliberating with himself whether he should make a Joint-Stool or a God, out of an old Block he was going to work upon. And do not most Fathers do the same with their Children? Now pray, what is this but acting from a fortuitous Concourse of Images? This Passage of the Poet calls to my mind a Story which I think extremely applicable to our present Argument.
(pp. 190-1)
",2013-07-08 20:08:11 UTC,"""And what is Education, for the most part, but stocking a Child's Brain with Chains of Images?""",2013-07-08 20:08:11 UTC,"","",,Fetters,"",Reading,21529,7510
"A Taylor in this City, having been very active in promoting the Election of Tucker and Fownes, was rewarded for his pains by a zealous Parson with the Clerkship of the Parish. He had at that time a Son turn'd of fifteen, and was in great suspense whether to put him out Apprentice to a Button-maker, or dedicate him to the Church. But his own Preferment having raised his Ambition, he expected no less than to see his Boy come in Curate in a few years, and so resolved he should be a Parson; ay, marry, should he, and a High-Church Parson too. The Boy, who had some beginnings of (what is call'd) Classic Learning, having finished his grammatical Studies, and receiv'd his Manumissory Indorsement, was sent to the University, and provided with a High-Church Tutor. Great care had been taken taken beforehand to arm him with the utmost Rage and Fury against Fanaticism; and his Tutor employ'd all his art and skill to fasten in his Brain a long Chain of Orthodox High-Church Images. The Chain was ended in a twelvemonth; but it took up four years more to strengthen and close the Links. And now the Work was so strong and well finished, that nothing was able to break it. This Train of Images continually revolv'd in our young Parson's Brain; and to preserve them from being jostled out by any intruding Foreigners, who might dispossess the Original Orthodox Inhabitants, the first Link of the Chain was rivetted by Pride, and the two last closed up by those two inseparable Companions, Laziness, and Dread of Heresy. The Theological Machine thus fitted up, ascends the Pulpit, thunders out against Schism, draws a Parallel betwixt Rome and Geneva, and gives the preference to the former, for having preserv'd the Hierarchy of the Church, and the Jure Divinoship and uninterrupted Succession of the Royal Priesthood. Next it damns the Whigs and Fanaticks for a pack of sad Dogs, that would eat up Kings with a Corn of Salt, and stain the whole Kalendar with the Blood of Royal Martyrs. The poor old Taylor all this time wept for Joy at his Desk; one half of the Congregation stared, and the other half most judiciously concluded him to be one of the most eminent Preachers of the Age. He now begins to fansy himself so too; for (what will seem very strange) he has never to this hour felt that he hath a rational Soul; and if he did, he would not know to what use to put it.
(pp. 191-3)",2013-07-08 20:10:15 UTC,"""Great care had been taken taken beforehand to arm him with the utmost Rage and Fury against Fanaticism; and his Tutor employ'd all his art and skill to fasten in his Brain a long Chain of Orthodox High-Church Images. The Chain was ended in a twelvemonth; but it took up four years more to strengthen and close the Links.""",2013-07-08 20:10:15 UTC,"","",,Fetters,"",Reading,21530,7510
"A Taylor in this City, having been very active in promoting the Election of Tucker and Fownes, was rewarded for his pains by a zealous Parson with the Clerkship of the Parish. He had at that time a Son turn'd of fifteen, and was in great suspense whether to put him out Apprentice to a Button-maker, or dedicate him to the Church. But his own Preferment having raised his Ambition, he expected no less than to see his Boy come in Curate in a few years, and so resolved he should be a Parson; ay, marry, should he, and a High-Church Parson too. The Boy, who had some beginnings of (what is call'd) Classic Learning, having finished his grammatical Studies, and receiv'd his Manumissory Indorsement, was sent to the University, and provided with a High-Church Tutor. Great care had been taken taken beforehand to arm him with the utmost Rage and Fury against Fanaticism; and his Tutor employ'd all his art and skill to fasten in his Brain a long Chain of Orthodox High-Church Images. The Chain was ended in a twelvemonth; but it took up four years more to strengthen and close the Links. And now the Work was so strong and well finished, that nothing was able to break it. This Train of Images continually revolv'd in our young Parson's Brain; and to preserve them from being jostled out by any intruding Foreigners, who might dispossess the Original Orthodox Inhabitants, the first Link of the Chain was rivetted by Pride, and the two last closed up by those two inseparable Companions, Laziness, and Dread of Heresy. The Theological Machine thus fitted up, ascends the Pulpit, thunders out against Schism, draws a Parallel betwixt Rome and Geneva, and gives the preference to the former, for having preserv'd the Hierarchy of the Church, and the Jure Divinoship and uninterrupted Succession of the Royal Priesthood. Next it damns the Whigs and Fanaticks for a pack of sad Dogs, that would eat up Kings with a Corn of Salt, and stain the whole Kalendar with the Blood of Royal Martyrs. The poor old Taylor all this time wept for Joy at his Desk; one half of the Congregation stared, and the other half most judiciously concluded him to be one of the most eminent Preachers of the Age. He now begins to fansy himself so too; for (what will seem very strange) he has never to this hour felt that he hath a rational Soul; and if he did, he would not know to what use to put it.
(pp. 191-3)",2013-07-08 20:13:50 UTC,"""This Train of Images continually revolv'd in our young Parson's Brain; and to preserve them from being jostled out by any intruding Foreigners, who might dispossess the Original Orthodox Inhabitants, the first Link of the Chain was rivetted by Pride, and the two last closed up by those two inseparable Companions, Laziness, and Dread of Heresy.""",2013-07-08 20:13:50 UTC,"","",,Fetters and Inhabitants,INTEREST: USE IN ENTRY,Reading,21531,7510