"Shall he shut up all the Avenues of his Body, by which External Objects have access to affect his Mind ? And shall he rob the Mind her self of all Thought and Reflection?"
— Campbell, Archibald (1691-1756)
Place of Publication
Westminster
Publisher
Printed by J. Cluer and A. Campbell
Date
1728 (1733)
Metaphor
"Shall he shut up all the Avenues of his Body, by which External Objects have access to affect his Mind ? And shall he rob the Mind her self of all Thought and Reflection?"
Metaphor in Context
But perhaps it will be alledged, that the Author of Nature has forbid us to taste any other Satisfactions, but what we feel in relieving our Hunger and Thirst, and in perpetuating our Species. Indeed, if this can be made appear, I shall own, that all other Pleasures are Vicious and Luxurious. But I am well perswaded, there is no Man who knows any Thing of the Nature of God, who will imagine, that any such Prohibition is laid upon Mankind by a Good and Beneficent Deity. I shall not here take Notice, to what Joys and Felicities we are Invited in another World, whereof the Prospects cannot but be exceeding Ravishing: Perhaps our Author docs not intend to call those Entertainments Luxurious. I will only speak of those Objects that fall under our Notice in this World; and with Respect to Things of this Nature, I desire to know, when a Man is not gratifying those Appetites, that prompt him to take care of his Animal Life, or to propagate his Kind, what shall he be doing? Shall he shut up all the Avenues of his Body, by which External Objects have access to affect his Mind ? And shall he rob the Mind her self of all Thought and Reflection? This certainly he must do, before he can be found obedient to his Maker, it it be supposed, that God has prohibited Mankind all those pleasing Perceptions that spring from those Things which are not absolutely necessary to keep one alive.
(pp. 108-9)
(pp. 108-9)
Categories
Provenance
Google Books
Citation
At least 4 entries in ESTC (1728, 1733, 1734, 1748).
See Arete-Logia or, an Enquiry Into the Original of Moral Virtue; Wherein the False Notions of Machiavel, Hobbes, Spinoza, and Mr. Bayle, As They Are Collected and Digested by the Author of the Fable of the Bees, Are Examin'd and Confuted; ... To Which Is Prefix'd, a Prefatory Introduction, in a Letter to That Author. By Alexander Innes (Westminster: Printed by J. Cluer and A. Campbell, for B. Creake, 1728). <Link to ECCO><Link to Google Books>
Note, the work's publication history is detailed in the ODNB: Campbell wrote the work after reading Mandeville's Fable of the Bees, and in 1726 he entrusted the manuscript to Alexander Innes, who published the work under his own name. In 1730 Campbell asserted his authorship of the Enquiry in the "Advertisement" to his Discourse Proving that the Apostles were no Enthusiasts. In the 1733 republication of the Enquiry, Innes's duplicity was made public.
See Arete-Logia or, an Enquiry Into the Original of Moral Virtue; Wherein the False Notions of Machiavel, Hobbes, Spinoza, and Mr. Bayle, As They Are Collected and Digested by the Author of the Fable of the Bees, Are Examin'd and Confuted; ... To Which Is Prefix'd, a Prefatory Introduction, in a Letter to That Author. By Alexander Innes (Westminster: Printed by J. Cluer and A. Campbell, for B. Creake, 1728). <Link to ECCO><Link to Google Books>
Note, the work's publication history is detailed in the ODNB: Campbell wrote the work after reading Mandeville's Fable of the Bees, and in 1726 he entrusted the manuscript to Alexander Innes, who published the work under his own name. In 1730 Campbell asserted his authorship of the Enquiry in the "Advertisement" to his Discourse Proving that the Apostles were no Enthusiasts. In the 1733 republication of the Enquiry, Innes's duplicity was made public.
Date of Entry
07/16/2013
