Date: 1728 (1733)

"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 wit...

— Campbell, Archibald (1691-1756)

Date: 1728 (1733)

"By which Means she always bears a mighty Liking and Good-will to the Body; which is very much encreased from considering its Usefulness, and that it serves as a very commodious Engine to carry her about in her Diversions and Amusements, and to procure other Objects which she feels as necessary t...

— Campbell, Archibald (1691-1756)

Date: 1728 (1733)

"And my Reader will be pleas'd to observe, That whatever agreeable Perceptions we have form thence, they must all necessarily expire with the Body, unless the Author of Nature immediatly interpose and appoint new Regulations; for in the present Constitution of Things, the Human Body is the only E...

— Campbell, Archibald (1691-1756)

Date: 1728 (1733)

"Thus does that Great Man, with a Noble Elevation of Soul, teach his Disciples what he properly was, not the Body, which they were soon to see a lifeless Carcase, but the Mind, which after the Poyson should stop the Motions of his Earthly Machine, would strait go off to inhabit the Mansions of th...

— Campbell, Archibald (1691-1756)