"In the same manner, the sensible and living Part, the Soul or Mind, wanting its proper and natural Exercise, is burden'd and diseas'd."
— Cooper, Anthony Ashley, third earl of Shaftesbury (1671-1713)
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for A. Bell
Date
1699, 1714
Metaphor
"In the same manner, the sensible and living Part, the Soul or Mind, wanting its proper and natural Exercise, is burden'd and diseas'd."
Metaphor in Context
There is no-one of ever so little Understanding in what belongs to a human Constitution, who knows not that without Action, Motion, and Employment, the Body languishes, and is oppress'd; its Nourishment turns to Disease; the Spirits, unimploy'd abroad, help to consume the Parts within; and Nature, as it were, preys upon her-self. In the same manner, the sensible and living Part, the Soul or Mind, wanting its proper and natural Exercise, is burden'd and diseas'd. Its Thoughts and Passions being unnaturally with-held from their due Objects, turn against itself, and create the highest Impatience and Ill-humour.
(p. 213)
(p. 213)
Categories
Provenance
Searching "mind" and "as it were" in Past Masters. Text from PM, pagination from Klein's edition.
Citation
A complicated publication history. At least 10 entries in ESTC (1699, 1711, 1714, 1733, 1744, 1751, 1757, 1758, 1773, 1790).
See An Inquiry Concerning Virtue, in Two Discourses; Viz. I. of Virtue, and the Belief of a Deity. II. of the Obligations to Virtue. (London: Printed for A. Bell, 1699). <Link to ESTC><Link to EEBO>
See also "An Inquiry Concerning Virtue or Merit" in Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times. In Three Volumes. (London: John Darby, 1711). <Link to ESTC>
Some text drawn from EEBO and ECCO, most from Anthony Ashley Cooper, Third Earl of Shaftesbury. Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times, ed. Lawrence E. Klein (Cambridge: CUP, 2001). Klein's text is based on the British Library's copy of the second edition of 1714. [Texts to be collated.]
See An Inquiry Concerning Virtue, in Two Discourses; Viz. I. of Virtue, and the Belief of a Deity. II. of the Obligations to Virtue. (London: Printed for A. Bell, 1699). <Link to ESTC><Link to EEBO>
See also "An Inquiry Concerning Virtue or Merit" in Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times. In Three Volumes. (London: John Darby, 1711). <Link to ESTC>
Some text drawn from EEBO and ECCO, most from Anthony Ashley Cooper, Third Earl of Shaftesbury. Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times, ed. Lawrence E. Klein (Cambridge: CUP, 2001). Klein's text is based on the British Library's copy of the second edition of 1714. [Texts to be collated.]
Theme
Mind-Body Dualism
Date of Entry
09/19/2006
Date of Review
03/20/2007
