Achilles, his answer to Lycaon, 228.
Acting, its power over the mind, 332.
Actions of animals, uniformity of the,
illustrations of, 250.

Addison's papers in the "Spectator"

on wit, 115; anecdote of his wit, 124.
Admiration, remarks upon, 376, 377.
Affection, when most permanent, 326;
fear not always unfavourable to af-
fection, 326; increased or dimi-
nished by absence, 334.
Affections of animals, instances of,
259.
Affections, observations on the, 288;

passion, 288; attempt of Mr. Gay to
deduce our affections from associa-
tions, 291; lecture on the evil affec-
tions, 302; and on the benevolent
affections, 319; various degrees of
the, 340. See Evil Affections, Be..
nevolent Affections, and Passions.
Albert, philosophy of, 37.

Alcuin the cause of the renewal of
public instruction, 37.

Alison, Rev. Mr., notice of his work
on Taste, 156; his chapter on the
beauty of architecture, 193-195;
his observations on the feelings of
the sublime, 223.

Al Mammon, the Caliph, his zeal for
the promotion of learning, 37.
American Indians, their acute sight,
59; their habits of observation, 258.

Anacharsis the Scythian, 17.
Analogy, Butler's, eulogium on, 10.
Anaxagoras, his opinion as to the cause
of the superiority of man over the
brute creation, 262.

Anger, its effects on the body, 336.
Animals, uniformity of actions in,
250; faculties of, as compared with
those of men. See Faculties of
Animals.

Antiochus the Ascalonite, 36.
Antoniana Margarita, the, of Gomez
Pereira, 233.

Ants, instinct of, 247.

Appetites, the, a division of the active
principles of our nature, 288; ob-
servations on the, 354.
Arcesilaus, 24.

Architecture, observations on the
beauty of, 192.

Argand lamp, a beautiful invention,
190.

Arguing, the practice of, recom-
mended, 104.

Aristotle, various opinions respecting
him, 24; his remarkable influence
upon the understandings of man-
kind, 24; effects of his philosophy
for fifteen hundred years, 25; his
treatises on Government, Rhetoric,
and Poetry, 25; Grotius' critique of
his philosophy, 25; an enemy, in
the opinion of Bacon, to experi-
mental philosophy, 25; analysis of
his doctrines, 26; his writings first
brought to light and conveyed to
Rome by Sylla, 36.

Arnauld, reference to, 9.
Association, notion of the Rev. Mr.
Gay, that all our passions are ex-
plicable upon the principle of 14;
pernicious effects of the principle of,
15. 46; and sensation, distinction
between, 63; its connection with
the feelings of the beautiful in all
things, 165, et seq.; a great barrier
to the reception of truth, 270; ob-
servations on the association of
ideas, 291; attempt of the Rev. Mr.
Gay to show the possibility of de-

ducing all our passions and affections
from association, 291; Dr. Hartley's
celebrated theory, 292; the passion
of fear, 292; benevolence and re-
sentment, 294-296; the medium
idea by which two others are asso-
ciated, is always at length destroyed,
and the two others coalesce, and
make the association, 296; instances
of this, 297; association in the pas-
sion of avarice, 297; origin of the
feelings and passions, 298; the evil
affections, 302-318; the benevolent
affections, 319-335; recapitulation
of the different kinds of association,
382; active habits referable to asso-
ciation, 384; association is to habit
what habit is to thought, 398.
Attention, classed among our faculties
by Dugald Stewart, 14.
Aurungzebe, the Emperor, his power,

217.

Avarice, customary progress of asso-
ciation in, 297; a peculiar modifi.
cation of the desire of power, 365.

B.

Babylon, Jewish philosophical schools
of, 36.
Bacon, the friar, his resistance to the
power of habit, 404.
Bacon, Lord, his influence upon the
understandings of mankind, 24; his
opinion that Aristotle was the great-
est enemy to experimental philoso-
phy, 25; observations on his philo-
sophy, 38.

Bagdat, public schools of, 37.
Barbey rac, his preface to Puffendorf,

25 his eulogium on Grotius' work
on natural law, 38.

Barrow, Dr., his observations on wit,
Ill; his habitual dislike of dogs,
402.

Bassora, public schools of, 37.
Baumgarten, 53.

Beattie, his support of first principles,
46.
Beautiful, the, its effect in destroying
the feeling of wit, 120; lecture on
the, 165; introductory remarks,
165;
the expression "beautiful,'
165; universality of its application,
165; the word as a general term
for excellence, 166; causes which
excite the feelings of the beautiful
in the mind, 167; existence of an
original beauty of matter, 169; the
beautiful in music, 170; melody,
171; harmony, 173; beauty of
colours, 175; of forms, 175-179.
observations of Sir Joshua Rey-

nolds, 180; effects of custom, 184;
beauty of the human face, 186;
beauty of motion, 187; grace, 188;
beauty of utility or fitness, 188, 189;
variety a strong cause of beauty,
191; landscapes, 191; architec-
ture, 192; universality of the feel-
ing of beauty, 196; the beautiful
in poetry, 197; painting, 201; ex-
terior objects, 201; those emotions
of the mind which may be called
beautiful, 202; content, 202; the
beautiful in morals, 203; shere
imitation, 206; the picturesque,

209.

Bees, instinct of, 235; Buffon's
observations on, 239; change of
their instincts, anecdote of a, 246;
their uniformity of action, 250.
Belus the Assyrian, 17.
Benevolence, history of the origin and
progress of. 294, 295.
Benevolent affections, the, lecture on,
319-335; origin of, 315; recol.
lections of the past, 320; causes of
benevolence, 322; objects which
excite the feeling of benevolence,
323, 324; love of excellence, 325;
respect and esteem, 326; atfinity
between all the good affections, 329;
pleasures of the body favourable
and pains unfavourable to bene-
volence, 329; tendency of hap-
piness to make people good, 330;
women more generally under the
influence of benevolence than men,
348.

Berkeley, Bishop, his destruction of
the world in one volume octavo, 6;
comparison of his system and that
of Malebranche, 41, 42; his cha-
racter, 43, 44; examination of his
theory, 44; his observation of the
apparent nearness of objects in Italy
and Sicily, 65; his Essay on
Vision, 69; his refutation of John
Locke's doctrine of universal ideas,
259.
Berosus, 17.

Blackmore, Sir Richard, his notion
of wit, 113.

Blackmore, Sir Richard, reference to,
261.

Blind persons, education of, a proof
of the improvement of which the
senses are capable, 60; anecdote of
a person born blind restored to sight,
70.
Blushing, remarks on, as an indication
of what passes in our minds, 328.
Bochara, public schools of, 37.
Body and mind, short history of the
connection between the, 56, 57; a
state of body may be associated with
an idea, 382.

Body, the, how affected by the pas-
sions, 336.

Bonnet, Charles, notice of, 51.
Bossuet, a disciple of Descartes, 41;
anecdote of him, 89; wit of his
Oraisons funèbres, 113.
Bougeant, Père, his theory that each
of the brute creation is inhabited by
a distinct devil, 233.
Brutes, opinions of philosophers as to
their essential characteristics, 233;
inhabited by devils, according to

Père Bougeant, 233.
Brydonne, Mr., his description of the
sublimity of Etna, 220.
Buffier, Père, notice of him, 50; his
views analogous to those of John
Locke, 51.

Buffoonery, remarks on, 136.
Buffon, Comte de, his observations on
the honeycomb, 239.

Bulls, observations on, 137; anecdotes
of, 137.

his

Burke, Mr., his indefatigability, 95;
picture he has drawn of the Queen
of France, 115; his remarks upon
the beauty of forms, 176;
observations on the wrong idea of
the relation which deformity bears
to beauty, 183; his opinion that
proportion is never of itself the
original cause of beauty, 184; his
notion that things must be small to
be beautiful, 185; his remarks on
the beauty of utility or fitness, 188;
effect of his passions over his ima-
gination, 345.

Burlesque, remarks on, 137.
Butler, Bishop, eulogium on his
Analogy, 10.

Buxton, Sir T. F., his remarkable
love of knowledge, 360.

C.

Cabalistic mysteries, origin of the,

36.

Cadmus, 17.

Campbell, Thomas, his wit, 113; his
observations on wit and humour,

116.

Caricature, remarks on, 138
Carneades, founder of the new Aca-
demy, 22; his doctrine of probable
appearances, 23; his mission to
Rome, 35.

Cartesian system, establishment of
the, 39; never took root in Eng-
land, 42; in France has entirely
yielded to that of Locke, 42.
Caterpillars, instinct of, 237.
Caution, importance of, in the con-
duct of the understanding, 279.

Cavendish, Sir Charles, his invitation
to Descartes to settle in England,
39.

Change, observations on the effects of,
372; how far is change agreeable?
374.

Charles I., of England, his invitation
to Descartes, 39.

Chemistry, science of, compared with
that of moral philosophy, 13.
Chinese, their stationary character,
251.
Christiana, Queen, of Sweden, her
patronage of Descartes, 40.
Chubb, reference to, 9.

Cicero, notice of his remarks on Epi-
curus and the Epicureans, 30; his
literary industry, 95; wit of his
Philippics, 113; effect of his pas-
sions over his imagination, 344.
Civilisation, its effect on the passions,

348.

Cogita, ergo sum," Descartes' lead-
ing principle of, 106.

Collier, Rev. Arthur, notice of his
work The Universal Key, or a
new Inquiry after Truth, &c.," 44.
Colours, beauty of, 173.

Colours, use of, in battle, 332.
Compassion incompatible with the
humorous, 134; observations on,
340;
worn out where it is fre-
quently exercised, 390.
Conception, fragment of a lecture on,
72. 79; frequently mistaken for
sensations, 72; conception and me-
mory, often confounded in very
young and very old persons, 77;
ease with which we conceive the
impressions of one sense better than
those of another, 78.

Condillac, his dissemination of the
reputation of Locke in France, 51.
Condorcet, notice of, 51.

Congreve, his observations on wit,
112.

Contempt, laughing, remarks upon,
138, 139; origin of, 309.

Content, the beautiful in the feeling
of, 202; remarks on, 342.
Contradiction, habit of, strictures on,

277.

Contrast, effects of, 369; examples
of, 369.

Conversation, its advantage in the
improvement of the mind, 276;
opinions expressed in books com-
pared with those expressed in con-
versation, 276.

Corelli, music of his "Pastorale,"
173.

Courtesy, its effect on the passions,

348.

Cowley, his definition of wit, 113;
reference to, 345.

Critolaus, his mission to Rome, 35.
Cromwell, Oliver, example of irony
contained in a letter to, 127.
Cronsaz, 53.

Cruelty, observations on, 309; Mon-
tesquieu's remark on, 310.
Cudworth, Dr. Ralph, his attack on
Hobbes, 9.50; his abuse of Moschus
the Phoenician, 17.

Curiosity a passion favourable to the
love of study, 271; the first motive
of a savage, 361.

Custom, effects of, in the estimation of
beauty, 184.

Cynic school, the, 20.
Cyrenaic school, the, 20.

D.

"Dainty Davy," emotion produced
by the music of, 172.
D'Alembert, notice of, 51.

Danger, loved for its own sake by the
young, 342.

Dark Ages of Europe, the, their
division into four periods, 37.
Darwin, Dr., his attack on the doc-
trine of instincts, 244; his anecdote
of the change of instinct, 246.
Deaf persons, education of, an irre-
sistible proof of the vast improve-
ment of which the senses are
capable, 60.

Degerando, M., on the discoveries of
Locke, 42; notice of his Essay
upon Natural Signs, 51; his History
of Philosophy, 53.

Demosthenes, wit of his orations,
113.

Descartes, his idea that the moon is

a sun, 6; supposed never to have
read any of Bacon's writings, 38; his
unconquerable desire for philo-
sophical inquiry, 39; he publishes
his system of philosophy, 39;
patronised by Charles I. of Eng-
land, and Queen Christina of
Sweden, 39, 40: his death, 40;
observations of Dr. Reid on Des-
cartes' philosophy, 40, 41; view of his
merits, 41; his leading principle of
"Cogita, ergo sum,' 106; his
opinions respecting the essential
characteristics of brutes, 233; his
views on the actions of brutes, 252.
Desires, observations on the active
principles of the, 288; in what
they consist, 352; distinction be-
tween desires and passions, 352-
355; the desire of knowledge, 358;
the desire of esteem, 361; the
desire of power, 364; steady pursuit
of the objects of, 349.

De Thou, president of the parlia-
ment of Paris, 24.

Devaux, the somnambulist, case of,

75.

Diogenes, his mission to Rome, 35.
Discussing, the practice of, recom-
mended, 104.

Distance, remarks respecting, appa-
rent and real, 64-68.

Double vision, phenomena of, 69.
Dreaming, 73; difference between it
and madness, 76.

Dryden, his definition of wit, 113.
Dumarsais, notice of his Essay upon
Abstraction, 51.

Dumb persons, education of, an irre-
sistible proof of the vast improve-
ment of which the senses are
capable, 60.

Durand, philosophy of, 37.

Eberhard, 53.

E.

Eclectic sect, origin of the, 35.
Economy, severe and rigid, sublimity
of, 227.

Education, the proper sort of, defined,
98; restraints imposed by, upon the
feeling of, 307.

Eliac school, the, 20.

Emotion, remarks on, 288; love of,
the foundation of tragedy, 343; the
taste for emotion dangerous when
indulged too freely, 343; proper
cause for this taste, 343.

Emotions of the mind, those which
may be called beautiful, 202
Ennui, analysis of the pain of, 314. et
seq.; Baron Trenck, 315; Count
Saxe, 314 Count Rumford's cure
for ennui, 315; a result of the non-
existence of a stimulus of passion,
342.

Envy, origin of, 309; the best cure
for, 326.

Epicurus, notice of, 29; his founda-
tion of the Epicurean school, 30;
examination of his doctrines, 31.

34.

Epithets, their effect in weakening
style, Votaire's witty observations
on, 123.

Essences, Plato's doctrine of, 21.
Essenes, the, 36.

Esteem, a degree of benevolence, 326;
desire of, remarks on the, 361; the
frequent cause of the love of know-
ledge, 361; opinions of Dr. Adam
Smith and David Hume on esteem,
362; self-approbation, 362.
Etna, Mr. Brydonne's description of
the sublimity of, 220.