work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context
3995,"",Reading Trotter in ECCO,2005-03-23 00:00:00 UTC,"I do not understand (says he) how the Soul if she be at any time utterly without Thoughts, what it is that produces the first Thought again, at the end of that unthinking Interval. And what then? Must we therefore conclude it cannot be done? If that be a good Argument, we must deny the most common and visible Operations in Nature. Do you understand how your Soul thinks at all? How it passes from one Thought to another? How it preserves its Treasure of Ideas, to produce them at pleasure [on Co... ]ons? And recollects those it had [...] time Reflected on? How it moves [y... body] or is affected by it? These are Operations which I suppose you are not to [Sc..p..c.l] to doubt of, nor yet pretend to understand how they are done: And since we are certain that the Soul is affected with all the [...] Changes of the Body, that it is Sick and in pain, and unable to perform [....] according as the Body is disorder'd, since we so sensibly perceive ti to become Drowsy when the Body is so; so many degrees abated of its Action, even to very near not thinking at all, from that intenseness and vigour of Thought it had, and recovers when the Body is refreshed with Sleep; whatever is the Cause of these Effects, whether some immediate Connexion between them, or an Arbitrary Law of their Union, where is the difficulty to conceive that the same Cause which lulls it almost, shou'd lay it quite to rest and awaken it again with the Body?
(pp. 31-2)",,10372,"•Trotter respond to Burnet.
•Crappy scan of the microfilm makes some of this unlegible. REVISIT, find better copy to work with.","""Do you understand how your Soul ... preserves its Treasure of Ideas, to produce them at pleasure""?","",2010-05-18 17:22:47 UTC,""
3995,"",Reading Trotter in ECCO,2005-03-23 00:00:00 UTC,"But upon this Supposition (says the Remarker) that all our Thoughts perish in sound Sleep, we seem to have a new Soul every Morning. That's a pretty Conceit indeed, but how does this seem? Thus as he explains himself; If a Body cease to move, and come to a perfect Rest, the motion it had cannot be restored, but a new Motion may be produc'd. If all Cogitation be extinct, all our Ideas are extinct, so far as they are Cogitations, and seated in the Soul. So we must have them new imprest, we are, as it were, new Born, and begin the World again. The force of which Argument lies thus, Cogitation in the Soul answering to Motion in Body, as the same Motion cannot be restor'd, but a new Motion may be produc'd; so the same Cogitations cannot be restor'd, but new Cogitations must be produc'd. Ergo, we seem to have a new Soul every Morning. This may be a good Consequence, when the Remarker has proved that every new Motion makes, or seems to make a new Body: In the mean time, all I can infer from this Parallel, is, That my Thoughts to Day, are not the same numerical Thoughts I had Yesterday, which, I believe, no body supposes they are, tho' they did not suspect they had a new Soul with every new Thought.
(p. 32)",,10373,•Trotter respond to Burnet. The Burnet passage cited is also in the database. I have not doubled the metaphor entries. INTEREST.
•Crappy scan of the microfilm makes some of this unlegible.,"""The force of which Argument lies thus, Cogitation in the Soul answering to Motion in Body, as the same Motion cannot be restor'd, but a new Motion may be produc'd; so the same Cogitations cannot be restor'd, but new Cogitations must be produc'd.""","",2010-05-18 17:24:52 UTC,""
7872,"",Reading,2014-04-25 03:38:09 UTC,"Now what is it that strikes a judicious Tast? Not that to be sure which injures the absent, or provokes the Company, which poisons the Mind under pretence of entertaining it, proceeding from or giving Countenance to false Ideas, to dangerous and immoral Principles. Wit indeed is distinct from Judgment but it is not contrary to it; 'tis rather its Handmaid, serving to awaken and fix the Attention, that so we may Judge rightly. Whatever Charms, does so because of its Regularity and Proportion; otherwise, tho' it is extraordinary and out of the way, it will only be star'd on like a Monster, but can never be lik'd. And tho' a thought is ever so fine and new, ever so well exprest, if it suits not with decorum and good Manners, it is not just and fit, and therefore offends our Reason, and consequently has no Charms, nor should afford us any entertainment.
(p. 20)",,23798,"","""Now what is it that strikes a judicious Tast? Not that to be sure which injures the absent, or provokes the Company, which poisons the Mind under pretence of entertaining it, proceeding from or giving Countenance to false Ideas, to dangerous and immoral Principles.""","",2014-04-25 03:38:09 UTC,""