Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)

The Improvement of the Mind

London

Printed for James Brackstone

1741

"Happy Souls, who keep such a sacred Dominion over their inferior and animal Powers, and all the Influences of Pride and secular interest, that the sensitive Tumults or these vicious Influences never rise to disturb the superior and better Operations of the reasoning Mind!"

But St. Jerome fairly confesses this evil Principle, in his Apology for himself to Pammachius, that he had not so much regarded what was exactly so be spoken in the Controversy he had in Hand, as what was fit to lay load on Jovinian. And indeed, I fear this was the vile custom of many of the Writers even in the Church-Affairs of those Times. But it will be double Scandal upon us in our more inlightned Age, if we will allow ourselves in a Conduct so criminal and dishonest. Happy Souls, who keep such a sacred Dominion over their inferior and animal Powers, and all the Influences of Pride and secular interest, that the sensitive Tumults or these vicious Influences never rise to disturb the superior and better Operations of the reasoning Mind!

(p. 167)

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Most text drawn from Google Books. See The Improvement of the Mind: or, a Supplement to the Art of Logick: Containing a Variety of Remarks and Rules for the Attainment and Communication of Useful Knowledge, in Religion, in the Sciences, and in Common Life. By I. Watts, D.D. (London: Printed for James Brackstone, at the Globe in Cornhill, 1741). <Link to ESTC><Link to 2nd edition in Google Books>

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