Date: 1817
Mackintosh, following Hobbes and Hartley, analogizes mind and matter: "the law of association being that to the mind, which gravitation is to matter. "
preview | full record— Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834)
Date: 1817
"Let us cross-examine Hartley's scheme under the guidance of this distinction; and we shall discover, that contemporaneity, (Leibnitz's Lex Continui) is the limit and condition of the laws of mind, itself being rather a law of matter, at least of phaenomena considered as material. At the utmost, ...
preview | full record— Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834)
Date: 1820
"And they [Stewart, Tracy, Cabanis] ask why may not the mode of action called thought, have been given to a material organ of peculiar structure, as that of magnetism is to the needle, or of elasticity to the spring by a particular manipulation of the steel."
preview | full record— Jefferson, Thomas (1743-1826)
Date: December 27, 1823
"Now in filling my mind with them [ideas and facts], and in warming and animating me, you would, I doubt not, do me great good. And I am one of those substances, like sealing wax and other electric bodies, which require to be warmed in order to possess the faculty of attracting objects, of coveri...
preview | full record— Wilberforce, William (1759-1833)
Date: 1825
"Vulgar passions--meteors of a day"--"expire before the chilling blasts of age"
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)