theme,metaphor,work_id,dictionary,provenance,id,created_at,updated_at,reviewed_on,comments,text,context
"","""He has clearly overthrown all those Metaphysical Whymsies, which infected mens Brains with a Spice of Madness, whereby they feign'd a Knowledge where they had none, by making a noise with Sounds, without clear and distinct Significations.""",3884,"",Reading Yolton's Way of Ideas (p. 5); found again reading Dioptrica Nova in the Folger Library.,10057,2004-03-15 00:00:00 UTC,2013-05-15 20:11:37 UTC,2013-05-13,"•Literal? Brain infections are certainly possible... Interesting. And what to do with this ""Spice of Madness""?","This is manifest in every Branch of Learning. Logick has put on a Countenance clearly different from what it appeared in formerly: How unlike is its shape in the Ars Cogitandi, Recherches de la Verite, &c. from what it appears in Smigletius, and the Commentators on Aristotle? But to none do we owe for a greater Advancement in this Part of Philosophy, than to the incomparable Mr. Locke, Who, in his Essay concerning Humane Understanding, has rectified more received Mistakes, and delivered more profound Truths, established on Experience and Observation, for the Direction of Man's mind in the Prosecution of Knowledge, (which I think may be properly term'd Logick) than are to be met with in all the Volumes of the Antients. He has clearly overthrown all those Metaphysical Whymsies, which infected mens Brains with a Spice of Madness, whereby they feign'd a Knowledge where they had none, by making a noise with Sounds, without clear and distinct Significations.
(Dedication)",""
Physiognomy; Mind and Body,"""Contagion seize 'em, Mildews and Blasts destroy her Beauty, stamp her Face as deform'd as her Soul, for, a Plague on her, she's too handsom now.""",3942,"","Searching ""soul"" and ""stamp"" in HDIS (Drama)",10220,2005-04-11 00:00:00 UTC,2012-01-06 18:59:37 UTC,,"","BOND.
Contagion seize 'em, Mildews and Blasts destroy her Beauty, stamp her Face as deform'd as her Soul, for, a Plague on her, she's too handsom now.",Act V
"","""The mind, as well as the body, seems to be endowed with a certain precise degree of force and activity, which it never employs in one action, but at the expence of all the rest.""",4610,"",Past Masters,12135,2003-09-18 00:00:00 UTC,2010-09-27 01:38:17 UTC,2010-09-26,"•Mind and body. Hume's favorite analogies border on materialism, no?","If we desire similar instances, it will not be very difficult to find them. The present subject of metaphysics will supply us abundantly. The same argument, which would have been esteemed convincing in a reasoning concerning history or politics, has little or no influence in these abstruser subjects, even though it be perfectly comprehended; and that because there is required a study and an effort of thought, in order to its being comprehended: and this effort of thought disturbs the operation of our sentiments, on which the belief depends. The case is the same in other subjects. The straining of the imagination always hinders the regular flowing of the passions and sentiments. A tragic poet, that would represent his heroes as very ingenious and witty in their misfortunes, would never touch the passions. As the emotions of the soul prevent any subtile reasoning and reflection, so these latter actions of the mind are equally prejudicial to the former. The mind, as well as the body, seems to be endowed with a certain precise degree of force and activity, which it never employs in one action, but at the expence of all the rest. This is more evidently true, where the actions are of quite different natures; since in that case the force of the mind is not only diverted, but even the disposition changed, so as to render us incapable of a sudden transition from one action to the other, and still more of performing both at once. No wonder, then, the conviction, which arises from a subtile reasoning, diminishes in proportion to the efforts which the imagination makes to enter into the reasoning, and to conceive it in all its parts. Belief, being a lively conception, can never be entire, where it is not founded on something natural and easy.
(I.iv.1) ",I.iv.1
"","""The mind is a kind of theatre, where several perceptions successively make their appearance; pass, repass, glide away, and mingle in an infinite variety of postures and situations.""",4610,Theater,"Searching in Past Masters; found again searching ""mind"" and ""theatre""",12137,2003-09-18 00:00:00 UTC,2010-09-27 01:49:03 UTC,2010-09-26,"•Hume's first real, robust metaphor in the Treatise?
•Note the qualification, ""is a kind of""
•This is also a kind of Population metaphor. REVISIT for conversation essay.
•This is the second time Hume has talked about postures... INTEREST?","But setting aside some metaphysicians of this kind, I may venture to affirm of the rest of mankind, that they are nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement. Our eyes cannot turn in their sockets without varying our perceptions. Our thought is still more variable than our sight; and all our other senses and faculties contribute to this change: nor is there any single power of the soul, which remains unalterably the same, perhaps for one moment. The mind is a kind of theatre, where several perceptions successively make their appearance; pass, repass, glide away, and mingle in an infinite variety of postures and situations. There is properly no simplicity in it at one time, nor identity in different, whatever natural propension we may have to imagine that simplicity and identity. The comparison of the theatre must not mislead us. They are the successive perceptions only, that constitute the mind ; nor have we the most distant notion of the place where these scenes are represented, or of the materials of which it is composed.
(I.iv.6) ",""
"","""Let us therefore apply this method of enquiry, which is found so just and useful in reasonings concerning the body, to our present anatomy of the mind, and see what discoveries we can make by it.""",4610,"",Searching in Past Masters,12139,2003-09-29 00:00:00 UTC,2010-09-27 01:54:17 UTC,2010-09-26,"","It is usual with anatomists to join their observations and experiments on human bodies to those on beasts; and, from the agreement of these experiments, to derive an additional argument for any particular hypothesis. It is indeed certain, that where the structure of parts in brutes is the same as in men, and the operation of these parts also the same, the causes of that operation cannot be different; and that whatever we discover to be true of the one species, may be concluded, without hesitation, to be certain of the other. Thus, though the mixture of humours, and the composition of minute parts, may justly be presumed to be somewhat different in men from what it is in mere animals, and therefore any experiment we make upon the one concerning the effects of medicines, will not always apply to the other, yet, as the structure of the veins and muscles, the fabric and situation of the heart, of the lungs, the stomach, the liver, and other parts, are the same or nearly the same in all animals, the very same hypothesis, which in one species explains muscular motion, the progress of the chyle, the circulation of the blood, must be applicable to every one; and, according as it agrees or disagrees with the experiments we may make in any species of creatures, we may draw a proof of its truth or falsehood on the whole. Let us therefore apply this method of enquiry, which is found so just and useful in reasonings concerning the body, to our present anatomy of the mind, and see what discoveries we can make by it.
(II.i.12) ",II.i.12
Mind and Body,"""As nature has given to the body certain appetites and inclinations, which she encreases, diminishes, or changes according to the situation of the fluids or solids, she has proceeded in the same manner with the mind.""",4610,"",Past Masters,12143,2003-09-29 00:00:00 UTC,2010-09-27 02:00:44 UTC,2010-09-26,"","We may therefore infer, that benevolence and anger are passions different from love and hatred, and only conjoined with them by the original constitution of the mind. As nature has given to the body certain appetites and inclinations, which she encreases, diminishes, or changes according to the situation of the fluids or solids, she has proceeded in the same manner with the mind. According as we are possessed with love or hatred, the correspondent desire of the happiness or misery of the person who is the object of these passions, arises in the mind , and varies with each variation of these opposite passions. This order of things, abstractedly considered, is not necessary. Love and hatred might have been unattended with any such desires, or their particular connexion might have been entirely reversed. If nature had so pleased, love might have had the same effect as hatred, and hatred as love. I see no contradiction in supposing a desire of producing misery annexed to love, and of happiness to hatred. If the sensation of the passion and desire be opposite, nature could have altered the sensation without altering the tendency of the desire, and by that means made them compatible with each other.
(II.ii.6)",II.ii.6
"","""Some, with a dry and barren Brain, / Poor Rogues! like costive Lap-Dogs strain; / While others with a Flux of Wit, / The Reader and their Friends besh**t.""",7289,Beasts,"Searching ""dog"" and ""brain"" in HDIS (Poetry)",19851,2012-07-03 18:56:04 UTC,2012-07-03 18:56:04 UTC,,"","Dear Knight, how great a Drudge is he
Who wou'd excel in Poetry?
And yet how few have learnt the Art,
To inform the Head, or touch the Heart?
Some, with a dry and barren Brain,
Poor Rogues! like costive Lap-Dogs strain;
While others with a Flux of Wit,
The Reader and their Friends besh**t.
Wou'd you (Sir Knight) my Judgment know?
He still writes worst who writes so so.
In this the mighty Secret lies,
To Elevate, and to Surprize:
Thus far my Pen at random run,
The Fire was out, the Clock struck One.",""
"","""[T]he Explanation whereof is allowed by all men as satisfactory, 'tis this, in Tab. 41. Fig. 2. the Image a b of the Object A B is painted on the Retina inverted, and yet the Eye (or rather the Soul by means of the Eye) sees the Object erect and in its natural Posture.""",3884,Optics,Reading,20175,2013-05-15 20:19:59 UTC,2013-05-15 20:19:59 UTC,,"","And that the Concurrence of the Axes Optici in a single Point or Object is sufficient to make that Object seem but one besides the Proof of the foregoing Experiments, I shall endeavour to evince, or at least to explicate, by an other known Affection of Vision; the Explanation whereof is allowed by all men as satisfactory, 'tis this, in Tab. 41. Fig. 2. the Image a b of the Object A B is painted on the Retina inverted, and yet the Eye (or rather the Soul by means of the Eye) sees the Object erect and in its natural Posture; Because the Mind takes no notice of what happens to the Rays in the Eye by Refraction or Decussation, but in its direction towards the Object; it follows streight alongst the Rays as they by their Impulse and in their plain Course lead it, and consequently following the Rays a A, it is directed strait to the upper part of the Object; and also following the Rays b B, it is directed to the lower part of the Object, and so of the rest: for suppose the Ball of the Eye taken out of its Socket, or Cavity in the Skull, and a Man receives in the Socket an impulse by a Stick coming in the posture of B b, and hitting him on the upper part of the Cavity, surely he would never look for the Original of this Blow at A, but would be certainly directed to hunt back as it were alongst the Stick b B towards the Place from whence the Stroak comes. So the mind does hunt back by means of each Pencil of Rays (which are as it were a Stick giving the Retina a certain Impulse) to the Point from whence it comes, and is thereby directed strait thereto. To apply this to what I intend, I say then, that the Mind or visive Faculty (if I may have leave to use that Word for a thing we all understand and cannot better express) takes no notice that there are two Axes Optici, or two Pictures made by those Axes Optici on each Retina, but following back, and hunting counter alongst these Axes, it is directed to, and determined in one single Point, and therefore it sees it as one.
(pp. 289-90)","Part II, Chapter VII"
"","""A Scene of greatness strait appear'd to Melora; and she with the Eye of Fancy, beheld her self seated in a Palace, attended by persons, born above her.""",7497,Eye,C-H Lion,21343,2013-07-01 14:41:51 UTC,2013-07-01 14:41:51 UTC,,"","A Scene of greatness strait appear'd to Melora; and she with the Eye of Fancy, beheld her self seated in a Palace, attended by persons, born above her. Women are generally ambitious, and opinionated of their own merit; and though Melora might justly boast she had one of the largest portions of Wit, and Discretion: yet she was a woman pertook of the frailty of her Sex; was willing to believe this fine story; and let these Glorious thoughts appear pleasing.
(p. 88)",""
"","""I will, in every particular, obey you, (answers that Dejected Man) but e'er I go, I wou'd, on my Knees, implore what will, in you, be an Act of Mercy, almost above a Mortal; and bring to my despairing Soul, the only Balsam, that can heal it's rancorous Wounds, and deter my Desperate Hand, from Committing on my Body the Violence, my Guilty Thoughts suggest.""",7497,"",C-H Lion,21353,2013-07-01 14:53:34 UTC,2013-07-01 14:53:34 UTC,,"","'My Soul sickens at these Black Relations; (say'd Melora)and Unborn Innocence Dy's in my Womb.' As she was speaking; a Page enters the Garden, and tells her Donna Olimpia was just Arriv'd; at which Melora, composing her self as much as possibly she cou'd, prepares to go and receive her. But first she desires Francisco to make her Father's House his Sanctuary; and tells him she will Escape thither, if by none of their stratagems prevented, the next Day; adding, that till she came, he shou'd not mention any thing of these Unhappy Circumstances. 'I will, in every particular, obey you, (answers that Dejected Man) but e'er I go, I wou'd, on my Knees, implore what will, in you, be an Act of Mercy, almost above a Mortal; and bring to my despairing Soul, the only Balsam, that can heal it's rancorous Wounds, and deter my Desperate Hand, from Committing on my Body the Violence, my Guilty Thoughts suggest: I mean, Forgiveness. Madam, if from your fair Mouth I hear my Pardon Seal'd, I shall embolden'd grow, and look towards Heaven for Mercy; else, I must sink to the dismal Grave, cover'd o'er with trembling horror, and never hope with Joy to rise.'
(pp. 225-6)
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