"As the form of man is the image of God, so the form of a government is the image of a man"
— Harrington, James (1611-1677)
Work Title
Date
1700
Metaphor
"As the form of man is the image of God, so the form of a government is the image of a man"
Metaphor in Context
1. THAT which gives the being, the action, and the denomination to a creature or thing, is the form of that creature or thing.
2. There is in form somthing that is not elementary but divine.
3. The contemplation of form is astonishing to man, and has a kind of trouble or impulse accompanying it, that exalts his soul to God.
4. As the form of a man is the image of God, so the form of a government is the image of man.
5. Man is both a sensual and a philosophical creature.
6. Sensuality in a man is when he is led only as are the beasts, that is, no otherwise than by appetit.
7. Philosophy is the knowledge of divine and human things.
8. To preserve and defend himself against violence, is natural to man as he is a sensual creature.
9. To have an impulse, or to be rais'd upon contemplation of natural things to the adoration or worship of God, is natural to man as he is a philosophical creature.
(IV.1-9)
2. There is in form somthing that is not elementary but divine.
3. The contemplation of form is astonishing to man, and has a kind of trouble or impulse accompanying it, that exalts his soul to God.
4. As the form of a man is the image of God, so the form of a government is the image of man.
5. Man is both a sensual and a philosophical creature.
6. Sensuality in a man is when he is led only as are the beasts, that is, no otherwise than by appetit.
7. Philosophy is the knowledge of divine and human things.
8. To preserve and defend himself against violence, is natural to man as he is a sensual creature.
9. To have an impulse, or to be rais'd upon contemplation of natural things to the adoration or worship of God, is natural to man as he is a philosophical creature.
(IV.1-9)
Categories
Provenance
Reading Pocock's Machiavellian Moment (Afterword, p. 568). Text available at OLL.
Citation
6 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1700, 1737, 1747, 1758, 1771).
See The Oceana of James Harrington, and His Other Works; Som [Sic] Wherof Are Now First Publish’d from His Own Manuscripts. The Whole Collected, Methodiz’d, and Review’d, With an Exact Account of His Life Prefix’d, by John Toland. (London: Printed [by John Darby], and are to be sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster, 1700). <Link to ESTC><Link to EEBO>
OLL takes as copy-text The Oceana and Other Works of James Harrington, with an Account of His Life by John Toland (London: Becket and Cadell, 1771).
Reading Pocock, The Political Works of James Harrington, p. 837; Pocock, James Harrington, p. 273.
See The Oceana of James Harrington, and His Other Works; Som [Sic] Wherof Are Now First Publish’d from His Own Manuscripts. The Whole Collected, Methodiz’d, and Review’d, With an Exact Account of His Life Prefix’d, by John Toland. (London: Printed [by John Darby], and are to be sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster, 1700). <Link to ESTC><Link to EEBO>
OLL takes as copy-text The Oceana and Other Works of James Harrington, with an Account of His Life by John Toland (London: Becket and Cadell, 1771).
Reading Pocock, The Political Works of James Harrington, p. 837; Pocock, James Harrington, p. 273.
Date of Entry
09/14/2009
