work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context
5586,"",Reading,2005-07-25 00:00:00 UTC,"The human brain is a bodily substance; and sensible and permanent impressions made upon it must so far resemble those made [end page 10] on sand by the foot, or on wax by the seal, as to have certain shape, length, breadth, and deepness. Now such an impression can only be made by that, which had solidity, magnitude, and figure. If then we remember thoughts, feelings, sounds, as well as things visible and tangible, which will hardly be denied; those sounds, thoughts, and feelings, must have a body, and, consequently, shape, size, and weight. What then is the size or weight of a sound? Is it an inch long, or half an inch? Does it weigh an ounce, or a grain? Does the roar of a cannon bear any resemblance to the ball, or to the powder, in shape, in weight, or in magnitude? What figure has the pain of the toothach, and our remembrance of that pain? Is it triangular, or circular, or of a square form? The bare mention of these consequences may prove the absurdity of the theories that lead to them.
(II.i, pp. 10-11)",2012-01-28,14914,"•I've included twice: Footprint and Wax
•See also previous entry. Beattie prepares to deny metaphors of impression here. Rhetorical questions used to make case. USE IN ENTRY. INTEREST.","""The human brain is a bodily substance; and sensible and permanent impressions made upon it must so far resemble those made on sand by the foot, or on wax by the seal, as to have certain shape, length, breadth, and deepness""",Impression,2012-01-28 18:18:16 UTC,Chapter II. Phenomena and Laws of Memory. Section I.
7516,"",Reading,2013-07-09 03:46:43 UTC,"How is it that ideas ripen in the mind, so that a man shall go to bed with a very imperfect possession of what he has laboured to get by heart, and shall awake in the morning able to repeat it with distinctness and facility? Has he been at work all night without being conscious of it. Have other spirits been making impressions on his sensorium. Are there faculties in the mind quite separate one from another, which, like the eyes of Argus, may some of them be awake while others are asleep, and is the great faculty of consciousness not perpetually essential to many mental operations?
(p. 158 in London Magazine)",,21560,USE IN ENTRY,"""Has he been at work all night without being conscious of it. Have other spirits been making impressions on his sensorium. Are there faculties in the mind quite separate one from another, which, like the eyes of Argus, may some of them be awake while others are asleep, and is the great faculty of consciousness not perpetually essential to many mental operations?""",Eye,2013-07-09 03:46:43 UTC,""