Elements of Mental Philosophy: Abridged and Designed as a Text-book for Academies and High Schools

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Relation between the sensation and what is outwardly signified
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Of the organ of sight and the uses or benefits of that sense
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CHAPTER IV
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CHAPTER VI
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Statement of the mode or process in visual perception
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Of the original and acquired perceptions of sight
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The idea of extension not originally from sight 46 47 48
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Illustration of the subject from the blind
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Measurements of magnitude by the
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Of objects seen in a mist 41 Of the sun and moon when seen in the horizon
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Of the estimation of distances by sight
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Signs by means of which we estimate distance by sight
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Estimation of distance when unaided by intermediate objects
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Of objects seen on the ocean
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CHAPTER VII
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Of habit in relation to the smell
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Of habit in relation to the taste
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RRETH 88 272
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Application of habit to the touch
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Other striking instances of habits of touch
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Habits considered in relation to the sight
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Origin of the distinction of simple and complex
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Sensations may possess a relative as well as positive increase of power
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Of habits as modified by particular callings and arts
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The law of habit considered in reference to the perception of the outlines and forms of objects
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Notice of some facts which favour the above doctrine
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Additional illustrations of Mr Stewarts doctrine
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CHAPTER VIII
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Of conceptions of objects of sight
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Of the influence of habit on our conceptions
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Influence of habit on conceptions of sight 63 Of the subserviency of our conceptions to description
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Of conceptions attended with a momentary belief
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Conceptions which are joined with perceptions
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Conceptions as connected with fictitious representations
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Supposed complexness without the antecedence of simple feelings
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The precise sense in which complexness is to be understood
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Illustrations of analysis as applied to the mind
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Complex notions of external origin
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Of objects contemplated as wholes
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CHAPTER X
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Instances of particular abstract ideas
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Mental process in separating and abstracting them
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General abstract notions the same with genera and species
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Process in classification or the forming of genera and species
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Early classifications sometimes incorrect 83 Illustrations of our earliest classifications
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Of the nature of general abstract ideas
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The power of general abstraction in connexion with numbers
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Of the speculations of philosophers and others
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CHAPTER XI
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Of different degrees of attention
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Dependence of memory on attention
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Of exercising attention in reading
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Alleged inability to command the attention
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Instances of notions which have an internal origin
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CHAPTER XIL DREAMING 93 Definition of dreams and the prevalence of them 94 Connexion of dreams with our waking thoughts
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Dreams are often caused by our sensations
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Ideas of existence mind selfexistence and personal identity
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Explanation of the incoherency of dreams 1st cause 97 Second cause of the incoherency of dreams 98 Apparent reality of dreams 1st cause 99 Appar...
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Origin of the notion of duration
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Illustrations of the nature of duration
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Of time and its measurements and of eternity
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The idea of space not of external origin
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Of the origin of the idea of power 116 The idea of space has its origin in suggestion
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Occasions of the origin of the idea of power
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Of the ideas of right and wrong
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Of our estimate of time in dreaming 101 Explanation of the preceding statements PART II
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Origin of the ideas of moral merit and demerit
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Of other elements of knowledge developed in suggestion 122 Suggestion a source of principles as well as of ideas
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CHAPTER III
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Further remarks on the proper objects of consciousness
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Consciousnes a ground or law of belief 126 Instances of knowledge developed in consciousness
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CHAPTER IV
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Occasions on which feelings of relation may arise
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Of the use of correlative terms 130 Of relations of identity and diversity
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11 Relations of degree and names expressive of them
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III Of relations of proportion
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IV Of relations of place or position
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v Of relations of time
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v1 Of ideas of possession
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VII Of relations of cause and effect
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Connexion of relative suggestion with reasoning
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CHAPTER V
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Of the general laws of association
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Resemblance the first general law of association
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Of resemblance in the effects produced
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Contrast the second general or primary
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Contiguity the third general or primary
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Cause and effect the fourth primary
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Of circumstantial memory or that species of memory which is based on the relations of contiguity in time and place
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Illustrations of specific or circumstantial memory
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Of philosophic memory or that species of memory which is based on other relations than those of contiguity
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Illustrations of philosophic memory
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Of that species of memory called intentional recollection
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Nature of intentional recollection 162 Instance illustrative of the preceding statements
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Marks of a good memory
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Directions or rules for the improvement of the memory
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Further directions for the improvement of the memory
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Of observance of the truth in connexion with memory
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CHAPTER VIII
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Mental action quickened by influence on the physical system
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Other instances of quickened mental action and of a restoration of thoughts
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Approval and illustrations of these views from Coleridge
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Use of definitions and axioms in demonstrative reasoning
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Application of the principles of this chapter to education
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Demonstrations do not admit of different degrees of belief
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Connexion of this doctrine with the final judgment and a future life ib 185 187
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CHAPTER IX
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Definition of reasoning and of propositions
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Of reasoning from analogy
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Illustration of the preceding statement
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Grounds of the selection of propositions
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Reasoning implies the existence of antecedent or assumed propo sitions
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Further considerations on this subject
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Of differences in the power of reasoning
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Of habits of reasoning
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Of reasoning in connexion with language or expression
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Illustration of the foregoing section
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Effects on the mind of debating for victory instead of truth
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CHAPTER XIH IMAGINATION 204 Imagination an intellectual rather than a sensitive process
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The imagination closely related to the reasoning power
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Definition of the power of imagination
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Process of the mind in the creations of the imagination
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Further remarks on the same subject 209 Illustration from the writings of Dr Reid
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Grounds of the preference of one conception to another
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Illustration of the subject from Milton 212 The creations of imagination not entirely voluntary
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Illustration of the statements of the preceding section
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On the utility of the faculty of the imagination
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Importance of the imagination in connexion with reasoning
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CHAPTER XIV
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Disordered intellectual action as connected with the body 217 Of excited conceptions and of apparitions in general 218 Of the less permanent excited...
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First cause of permanently vivid conceptions or apparitions Morbid sensibility of the retina of the eye 235
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Characteristics of emotions of beauty
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Of what is meant by beautiful objects
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Of the distinction between beautiful and other objects
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Grounds or occasions of emotions of beauty various
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DIVISION II
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Classification of the natural sensibilities
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All objects not equally fitted to cause these emotions
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A susceptibility of emotions of beauty an ultimate principle of our mental constitution
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Remarks on the beauty of forms The circle
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Original or intrinsic beauty The circle 260 Of the beauty of straight and angular forms
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Of square pyramidal and triangular forms
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Of the original or intrinsic beauty of colours
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Further illustrations of the original beauty of colours
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Of sounds considered as a source of beauty
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Illustrations of the original beauty of sounds
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The place of emotions considered in reference to other mental
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Of motion as an element of beauty
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Explanation of the beauty of motion from Kaimes
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CHAPTER III
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Objects may become beautiful by association merely
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Further illustrations of associated feelings
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Instances of national associations
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The sources of associated beauty coincident with those of human happiness
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Summary of views in regard to the beautiful
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CHAPTER IV
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The occasions of the emotions of sublimity various
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Great extent or expansion an occasion of sublimity 279 Great height an element or occasion of sublimity
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Of depth in connexion with the sublime
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Of colours in connexion with the sublime 300 301
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Of the original or primary sublimity of objects 286 Considerations in proof of the original sublimity of objects
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Influence of association on emotions of sublimity 306 307 ib
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CHAPTER V
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Of what is understood by wit 310 311 291 Of wit as it consists in burlesque or in debasing objects
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Of wit when employed in aggrandizing objects
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Of the character and occasions of humour 312
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Of the practical utility of feelings of the ludicrous
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CHAPTER I
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The principles based upon desire susceptible of a twofold
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Of the natural desire of esteem
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Of the desire of esteem as a rule of conduct
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Of the desire of possession
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Of the moral character of the possessory principle
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Of perversions of the possessory desire
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CHAPTER III
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Of the moral character of the desire of power
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Propensity of selflove or the desire of happiness
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Of selfishness as distinguished from selflove
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Reference to the opinions of philosophical writers
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The principle of sociality original in the human mind
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Evidence of the existence of this principle of sociality
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Of the twofold operation and the morality of the principle of curi
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Relation of the social principle to civil society
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Of the comparative rank of the affections
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Of the complex nature of the affections
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Of resentment or anger 345 Illustrations of instinctive resentment 346 Uses and moral character of instinctive resentment 347 Of voluntary in distinct...
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Of the filial affection
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The filial affection original or implanted
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Illustrations of the filial affection
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Of the nature of the fraternal affection
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On the utility of the domestic affections
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Of the moral character of the domestic affections and of the be 376 371 379 380 nevolent affections generally
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Of the moral character of the voluntary exercises of the benevo lent affections
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Of the connexion between benevolence and rectitude
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Of humanity or the love of the human race
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Further proofs in support of the doctrine of an innate humanity or love for the human race 383
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of benevolent institutions
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Other remarks in proof of the same doctrine
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Of patriotism or love of country
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Of the affection of friendship
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Of the affection of pity or sympathy
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Of the moral character of pity
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Of the affection of gratitude
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Section Page
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Further illustrations of the results of the absence of this principle
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Of the origin of secondary active principles
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Classification of the moral sensibilities
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Of the close connexion between conscience and reasoning
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Further proof from language and literature
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Feelings of obligation have particular reference to the future 43
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Diversities in moral decisions dependent on differences in
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CHAPTER V
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THE SENSIBILITIES OR SENSITIVE NATURE
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Section Pare 428 Disordered action of the principle of selfpreservation
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Disordered and alienated action of the possessory principle
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Disordered action of imitativeness or the principle of imitation
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Disordered action of the principle of sociality
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Further remarks on the disordered action of the social propensity
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Of the disordered action of the desire of esteem
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Disordered action of the desire of power
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CHAPTER IL
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Familiar instances of sympathetic imitation
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Instances of sympathetic imitation at the poorhouse of Harlem
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Other instances of this species of imitation
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CHAPTER III
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Of sudden and strong impulses of the mind
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Insanity of the affections or passions
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Of the mental disease termed hypochondriasis
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Of intermissions of hypochondriasis and of its remedies
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Disordered action of the passion of fear
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CHAPTER IV
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Of accountability in connexion with this form of disordered con science
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Of natural or congenital moral derangement
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Of moral accountability in cases of natural or congenital moral derangement
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101. oldal - The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark, When neither is attended ; and, I think The nightingale, if she should sing by day, When every goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren.
163. oldal - Where the great Sun begins his state Robed in flames and amber light, The clouds in thousand liveries dight; While the ploughman, near at hand, Whistles o'er the furrowed land, And the milkmaid singeth blithe, And the mower whets his scythe, And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale.
78. oldal - Spit, fire! spout, rain! Nor rain, wind, thunder, fire, are my daughters: I tax not you, you elements, with unkindness; I never gave you kingdom, call'd you children, You owe me no subscription: then let fall Your horrible pleasure; here I stand, your slave, A poor, infirm, weak, and despis'd old man.
303. oldal - The voice of the Lord is upon the waters: the God of glory thundereth: the Lord is upon many waters.
231. oldal - The sooty films that play upon the bars Pendulous, and foreboding in the view Of superstition prophesying still Though still deceived, some stranger's near approach.
169. oldal - Windsor ; thou didst swear to me then, as I was washing thy wound, to marry me, and make me my lady, thy wife.
118. oldal - ... as we do from bodies affecting our senses. This source of ideas every man has wholly in himself; and though it be not sense, as having nothing to do with external objects, yet it is very like it, and might properly enough be called internal sense.
187. oldal - ... according to the deeds done in the body, whether they be good or whether they be evil...
385. oldal - The air was sweet and plaintive, and the words, literally translated, were these : ' The winds roared and the rains fell. The poor white man, faint and weary, came and sat under our tree. Ke has no mother to bring him milk ; no wife to grind his corn.' Chorus : 'Let us pity the white man ; no mother has he, etc., etc.
310. oldal - The sun had long since in the lap Of Thetis taken out his nap, And like a lobster boiled, the morn From black to red began to turn," The imagination modifies images, and gives unity to variety ; it sees all things in one, il piti nelV uno.

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