"If the several Members, and the constituent Parts of this curious Machine, which the Mind always carries about her, have a brisk uniform Motion, and be so ballanc'd and adjusted as easily to perform all the Animal Functions, this gives a Briskness and Vivacity to the Mind, and entertains her with many agreeable Perceptions, which make her approve her present Situation, while she feels every Thing about her healthful and vigorous: But when the Blood and Spirits flag, or when the inward Motions of this human Machine happen to be disturbed, this affects the Mind with Pain, and gives her the uneasy Sensations of Trouble, Sickness, or Anguish, so that she is now discontented with her present Condition."
— Campbell, Archibald (1691-1756)
Place of Publication
Westminster
Publisher
Printed by J. Cluer and A. Campbell
Date
1728 (1733)
Metaphor
"If the several Members, and the constituent Parts of this curious Machine, which the Mind always carries about her, have a brisk uniform Motion, and be so ballanc'd and adjusted as easily to perform all the Animal Functions, this gives a Briskness and Vivacity to the Mind, and entertains her with many agreeable Perceptions, which make her approve her present Situation, while she feels every Thing about her healthful and vigorous: But when the Blood and Spirits flag, or when the inward Motions of this human Machine happen to be disturbed, this affects the Mind with Pain, and gives her the uneasy Sensations of Trouble, Sickness, or Anguish, so that she is now discontented with her present Condition."
Metaphor in Context
In the first Place, I say, our Pleasures or Pains are derived to us from the Impressions of some Objects that are external to the Mind. And the first of this Sort that occurs or our Observation, is the human Body it self, in which, for a Reason, I shall give by and by, we all reckon ourselves to be deeply concern'd. There is, I know not how, in the present state of our Existence, so close and intimate a Connection of Soul and Body together, that according as this happens to be affected, so does that receive either pleasing or painful Sensations. If the several Members, and the constituent Parts of this curious Machine, which the Mind always carries about her, have a brisk uniform Motion, and be so ballanc'd and adjusted as easily to perform all the Animal Functions, this gives a Briskness and Vivacity to the Mind, and entertains her with many agreeable Perceptions, which make her approve her present Situation, while she feels every Thing about her healthful and vigorous: But when the Blood and Spirits flag, or when the inward Motions of this human Machine happen to be disturbed, this affects the Mind with Pain, and gives her the uneasy Sensations of Trouble, Sickness, or Anguish, so that she is now discontented with her present Condition. And thus far does the Mind depend immediatly upon her Body for her Pleasures or Pains, without having Regard to other external Objects.
(pp. 177-8)
(pp. 177-8)
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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
