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"AEMILIUS
Besides the five Senses, the Naturalists generally speak of a Sensorium, or common Sense, which they reckon the ground of all Sensation, or a Medium, as it were, for modifying the Impressions and conveying them to the Mind. The Eye, say they, knows not that it sees, nor the Ear that it hears, till this common Sense interposes its Verdict.
This makes no addition to the number of our Senses, whether it be granted or denied; it only serves, as a new Instrument, to account in some dark manner for their Operations. And perhaps it is owing to this Medium or Canal, among other things, that having two Eyes and two Ears we do not see nor hear double.
(p. 31)",2013-08-18 04:25:48 UTC,"""Besides the five Senses, the Naturalists generally speak of a Sensorium, or common Sense, which they reckon the ground of all Sensation, or a Medium, as it were, for modifying the Impressions and conveying them to the Mind.""",2013-08-18 04:25:48 UTC,"","",,Impressions,"",ECCO-TCP,22324,7622
"AEMILIUS
Besides the five Senses, the Naturalists generally speak of a Sensorium, or common Sense, which they reckon the ground of all Sensation, or a Medium, as it were, for modifying the Impressions and conveying them to the Mind. The Eye, say they, knows not that it sees, nor the Ear that it hears, till this common Sense interposes its Verdict.
This makes no addition to the number of our Senses, whether it be granted or denied; it only serves, as a new Instrument, to account in some dark manner for their Operations. And perhaps it is owing to this Medium or Canal, among other things, that having two Eyes and two Ears we do not see nor hear double.
(p. 31)",2013-08-18 04:26:52 UTC,"""And perhaps it is owing to this Medium or Canal, among other things, that having two Eyes and two Ears we do not see nor hear double.""",2013-08-18 04:26:52 UTC,"","",,"","",ECCO-TCP,22325,7622
"LUCINUS
Here is my Opinion without ceremony. In the Body itself mention is made of three Regions, the Belly, the Breast, and the Head; which bears some analogy to the Senses, the Affections, and the Understanding. But as there is no fix'd Standard for most words, sometimes the Heart, and sometimes the Bowels, is made use of, to signify those Sentiments of Tenderness and Pity, and also the Seat of them; the Head being generally taken for the Seat of the Judgment, as well as for the Judgment it self.
(pp. 69-70)
",2013-08-18 04:35:02 UTC,"""But as there is no fix'd Standard for most words, sometimes the Heart, and sometimes the Bowels, is made use of, to signify those Sentiments of Tenderness and Pity, and also the Seat of them; the Head being generally taken for the Seat of the Judgment, as well as for the Judgment it self.""",2013-08-18 04:35:02 UTC,"","",,Throne,META-METAPHORICAL,ECCO-TCP,22328,7622
"Mean-time the Body, which we study to soak in Pleasure like a Sponge, is of it self but a mere dead Husk, and drops off at last: and a Man reckons upon it no farther, than as a Machine for bringing him Pleasure, and would sometimes be content to change it for another Body, if he could, and does often wear it out before its natural period.
But to come to the highest Region in Man. The Mind, or Understanding, is consider'd as a Principle of Light or Discerning; as the Senses and Affections are supposed to be blind. The Mind sees the Order and Value of Things, their Relations, and Properties; and this either by immediate Intuition, like the bodily Eye, or by a sort of Process, which considers one thing after another; and so is called both Reasoning and Reason.
(pp. 70-71)",2013-08-18 04:37:08 UTC,"""Mean-time the Body, which we study to soak in Pleasure like a Sponge, is of it self but a mere dead Husk, and drops off at last: and a Man reckons upon it no farther, than as a Machine for bringing him Pleasure, and would sometimes be content to change it for another Body, if he could, and does often wear it out before its natural period.""",2013-08-18 04:37:08 UTC,"","",,"","",ECCO-TCP,22329,7622
"AEMILIUS
It seems one great use of the reasoning Faculty is to supply the want of Intuition, which is seeing at a glance. For this purpose the Mind puts things in a certain order, as Figures in Cyphering, that we may find out the Sum, the Remainder, the Proportion, or whatever we want to know about them. These three Operations of numbering, weighing, and measuring, seem to answer to the several Exercises of Reason; and so 'tis compared sometimes to a Ballance, sometimes to a Line.
Reason then must fall into the grossest Mistakes, when it meddles in things beyond its Line, or out of its Sphere: in this case 'tis like an incompetent Judge, and the Conclusions must be absurd. Buchanan's Paraphrase on the seventy-third Psalm is very applicable to this purpose. It mistakes also in things within its Sphere, when it is imposed upon by the Affections, like a Judge that's corrupted. And nothing is truer than that Observation, the Understanding is the Dupe of the Inclinations.
(pp. 71-2)",2013-08-18 04:39:13 UTC,"""These three Operations of numbering, weighing, and measuring, seem to answer to the several Exercises of Reason; and so 'tis compared sometimes to a Ballance, sometimes to a Line.""",2013-08-18 04:38:58 UTC,"","",,"","",ECCO-TCP,22331,7622
"LUCINUS
But the Understanding, or Reason, however often mis-led, may still (in some respect) be called the leading Faculty, and supposed to be free of any byass; all Light, without any Heat. Pure Deliberation, assenting, denying, chusing, rejecting, &c. imply the operation of the Head only, as if the Heart had no interest in the thing: for certainly we judge thus coolly on some occasions. And as Liberty was considered but as a power to make use of our Faculties in general, so the last step of Reason is to make its choice, which it does (in sound unbyass'd Minds) according to the nature of Things; or, in other words, according to the Truth.
At present, we are supposing Reason to be entire, so far as it goes, without considering the narrowness of its Limits, nor the Clogs that are upon it, nor whether these Clogs are most owing to the Appetites or the Passions. All such Discussions are endless.
Taking Reason therefore only for the natural Light of the Mind, we may well enough conclude, that natural Truths, or Principles, belong to it, as visible Objects belong to the Eye. Knowledge is but the seeing things as they are, or in the way they are design'd to appear to us: for, strictly speaking, we see few things as they really are, no more than we see the Sun in the Firmament as he is.
(p. 73)",2013-08-18 04:43:38 UTC,"""At present, we are supposing Reason to be entire, so far as it goes, without considering the narrowness of its Limits, nor the Clogs that are upon it, nor whether these Clogs are most owing to the Appetites or the Passions. All such Discussions are endless.""",2013-08-18 04:43:38 UTC,"","",,"","",ECCO-TCP,22334,7622
"AEMILIUS
The Memory is not only a Register of Tales, and Names, and Fictions, (the Materials of common Discourse) but may be called a Register of every thing that enters into the Senses and the Imagination. But what shall we think of this strange Sieve, which lets some things pass through, and retains others; and often retains the most unprofitable? To forget, is certainly among the Defects of our Nature: and yet, as things go, it were a kind of Happiness to forget the most part of what we hear; and we should be at no loss to forget even several things that we read: tho' we may blame our selves more for what we read than what we hear, not having at all times the choice of our Company.
(p. 86)",2013-08-18 04:48:10 UTC,"""But what shall we think of this strange Sieve, which lets some things pass through, and retains others; and often retains the most unprofitable?""",2013-08-18 04:48:10 UTC,"","",,"","",ECCO-TCP,22339,7622
"AEMILIUS
But what shall we think of this odd Treasury, which retains things during a certain time, and then loses them, even before the Infirmities of Age come on? We say a thing has dropt out of our head: (where does it drop?) and it drops in again when we least expect it. What Corners do those Images lurk in? and how do they cast up? What portion of Matter, and of what figure, are they united to? and what Canals are they convey'd in? I hardly expect these Questions will be resolved; and the proposing them is only design'd to keep my self in mind of our Ignorance, both of the Defects, and the remaining Excellencies of our Nature.
(pp. 86-7)",2013-08-18 04:50:12 UTC,"""But what shall we think of this odd Treasury, which retains things during a certain time, and then loses them, even before the Infirmities of Age come on? We say a thing has dropt out of our head: (where does it drop?) and it drops in again when we least expect it. What Corners do those Images lurk in? and how do they cast up? What portion of Matter, and of what figure, are they united to? and what Canals are they convey'd in?""",2013-08-18 04:50:12 UTC,"","",,Rooms,"",ECCO-TCP,22340,7622