"In short, he ranges, with curious attention, through the wide regions of truth; noting the different steps, that lead to it, by converging lines, and carefully distinguishing the false lights of fancy or passion from the cooler investigations of the reasoning faculties."
— Berington, Joseph (1743-1827)
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for G. Robinson, and M. Swinney, Birmingham
Date
1776
Metaphor
"In short, he ranges, with curious attention, through the wide regions of truth; noting the different steps, that lead to it, by converging lines, and carefully distinguishing the false lights of fancy or passion from the cooler investigations of the reasoning faculties."
Metaphor in Context
As then the powers of mind are all permitted to operate, after the instinctive principles have performed their duty, it is clear that man is again restored to what appeared his essential rank of being. He begins to reason, to compare ideas, to pursue enquiry by persisting in a due course of observation and reflection, to discriminate the nice boundaries, which divide sense from reason, and the various evolutions of his own mind. In short, he ranges, with curious attention, through the wide regions of truth; noting the different steps, that lead to it, by converging lines, and carefully distinguishing the false lights of fancy or passion from the cooler investigations of the reasoning faculties. With the same analytical and wary observations, quitting the paths of philosophy, he enters on the study of other sciences, and masters, by degrees, their enormous heights.
(pp. 136-7, in. 141-2)
(pp. 136-7, in. 141-2)
Categories
Provenance
Gale's Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO).
Citation
Berington, Joseph. Letters on Materialism and Hartley's theory of the Human Mind, Addressed to Dr. Priestley, F. R. S. (London: Printed for G. Robinson, and M. Swinney, Birmingham, 1776). <Link to ECCO>
Date of Entry
01/08/2004
Date of Review
07/22/2011
