Beattie, James (1735-1803)

Of Imagination [from Dissertations Moral and Critical]

London

Printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell ... and W. Creech

1783

"For the passions and imagination mutually affect each other; and the same rules will serve for the government of both."

The cure of this distemper, as it effects both soul and body, belongs equally to the physician and to the moralist; who prescribes medicine and exercise, to remove obstructions and evil humours from the corporeal part; and a hurry of business or amusement, to force the mind to exert itself in a new direction. But this, like many other maladies, it is more easy to prevent, than to cure. Let me, therefore, recommend the following preventives, for regulating, not our fancy only, but our passions, and moral nature in general. For the passions and imagination mutually affect each other; and the same rules will serve for the government of both.
(V, p. 199)

Government::Rule and Subjection::Rule over Passion

Reading

At least 2 entries in ESTC (1783).

Beattie, James. Dissertations Moral and Critical. Printed for Strahan, Cadell, and Creech: London, 1783. Facsimile-Reprint: Friedrich Frommann Verlag, Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt, 1970.

07/26/2005