Date: 1744

"That is to say, we think there is no Way hitherto laid down for preserving the Vigour of the Body, and thereby securing such a Supply of animal Spirits as may support the Dominion of the Soul in its full Extent and Activity, so feasible as this, which is suggested to be the Source of the Longevi...

— Campbell, John (1708-75)

Date: 1744

"The first Man knew them by his Reason; but it was this same Reason that blotted them again from his Mind; for having attained to this Kind of natural Knowledge, he began to mingle therewith his own Notions and Ideas."

— Campbell, John (1708-75)

Date: 1744

"The Preservation of Life, the defending the human Body from Decay, and of rendering it a fit Tenement for the Soul to inhabit, in that Season in which she is most capable of exerting her noblest Faculties, are grave and ferious Subjects; with which no trivial Matters ought to mingle."

— Campbell, John (1708-75)

Date: 1744

"These are the Exercises of the Understanding, and in these, as in a Chariot, the Soul takes the Air; while I am capable of these, I don't give myself much concern about bodily Decays, I am always at the Command of my Friends attend the Service of the House frequently, and distinguish myself in D...

— Campbell, John (1708-75)

Date: 1744

"A serious mind is the native soil of every virtue, and the single character that does true honour to mankind."

— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)

Date: 1744

"Reason progressive, Instinct is complete: / Swift Instinct leaps; slow Reason feebly climbs."

— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)

Date: 1744

"Men perish in advance, as if the sun / Should set ere noon, in eastern oceans drown'd; / If fit, with dim ILLUSTRIOUS to compare, / The sun's meridian with the soul of man."

— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)

Date: 1744

"Why, to be good in vain, is man betray'd? / Betray'd by traitors lodged in his own breast, / By sweet complacencies from Virtue felt?"

— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)

Date: 1744

"Or if blind Instinct (which assumes the name / Of sacred Conscience) plays the fool in man, / Why Reason made accomplice in the cheat?"

— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)

Date: 1744

"Can man by Reason's beam be led astray?"

— Young, Edward (bap. 1683, d. 1765)