"In like manner many of our ideas are originally excited in tribes."
— Darwin, Erasmus (1731-1802)
Author
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for J. Johnson
Date
1794
Metaphor
"In like manner many of our ideas are originally excited in tribes."
Metaphor in Context
2. In like manner many of our ideas are originally excited in tribes; as all the objects of sight, after we become so well acquainted with the laws of vision, as to distinguish figure and distance as well as colour; or in trains, as while we pass along the objects that surround us. The tribes thus received by irritation become associated by habit, and have been termed complex ideas by the writers of metaphysics, as this book, or that orange. The trains have received no particular name, but these are alike associations of ideas, and frequently continue during our lives. So the taste of a pine-apple, though we eat it blindfold, recalls the colour and shape of it; and we can scarcely think on solidity without figure.
(p. 50)
(p. 50)
Categories
Provenance
ECCO-TCP
Citation
Zoonomia: or, The Laws of Organic Life, vol. 1 (London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1794). <Link to ECCO-TCP>
Date of Entry
09/28/2013
