work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context
3370,"",Reading,2011-07-22 15:26:15 UTC,"Besides the four differences of vibrations above-mentioned, which alone are insisted upon by Dr. Hartley, there may be a farther difference in the constitution of the nerves belonging to the different senses, or there may be so many circumstances that affect or modify their vibrations, that they may be as distinguishable from one another, as different human voices sounding the same note; and probably no two individuals of the human race can sound the same note so much alike, as that they could not be distinguished from one another.
(p. xiv)",,18965,"","""[T]here may be a farther difference in the constitution of the nerves belonging to the different senses, or there may be so many circumstances that affect or modify their vibrations, that they may be as distinguishable from one another, as different human voices sounding the same note; and probably no two individuals of the human race can sound the same note so much alike, as that they could not be distinguished from one another.""","",2011-07-22 15:26:36 UTC,""
3370,Mind's Eye,Reading,2011-07-22 16:20:54 UTC,"To lessen this difficulty a little, let it be considered how exceedingly different, to the eye of the mind, as we may say, are our ideas of sensible things from any thing that could have been conjectured concerning their effect upon us; as the ideas of sound, from the tremulous motion of the particles of the air, and much more the ideas of the different colours from the impulse of rays of light of different degrees of refrangibility; and what comes rather nearer to the case before us, how very different an effect has the mixture of several colours from what we could have supposed a priori. What resemblance is there between white, and the mixture of the seven primary colours, of which it consists, all of which are so different from it, and from one another? What power of intellect could analize that impression into its constituent parts, by attending to the idea only, without making those experiments which led Sir Isaac Newton to that capital discovery? Nay a person not acquainted with optics can hardly be made to believe but that black is as much a positive colour as red, or white. In like manner, from the combination of ideas, and especially very dissimilar ones, there may result ideas, which, to appearance, shall be so different from the parts of which they really consist, that they shall no more be capable of being analized by mental reflection than the idea of white.
(pp. xxxiii-xxxiv)",,18970,"","""To lessen this difficulty a little, let it be considered how exceedingly different, to the eye of the mind, as we may say, are our ideas of sensible things from any thing that could have been conjectured concerning their effect upon us.""","",2011-07-22 16:21:06 UTC,Introductory Essays