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dation for the most exalted and rational piety . 11 . 244 , 245 . We shall not follow the excellent
author through his general view of the mental powers ^ bow sensations produce ideas , and simple ideas complex ones by the associative power ; the distinction between ideas and
conceptions and notions ; how from the pleasurable and painful sensations the associative power produces the mental feelings , the affections and passions , how the understanding , aided by association * forms the ideas of relation ,
and on what depend the operations of judging , willing , reflecting , &c , 5 the power of retention and recollection of ideas , denominated memory ; and imagination , by which we form conceptions of scenes and circumstances
which we never witnessed , and which often did never exist 5 both of which operations , though modifications of the associative power , the author thinks require to be treated as separate faculties : but contents himself
with referring to the two chapters of Stewart , which treat of them as such j also to Hartley , Prop . 91 , 92 , Agreeably to this general view , the author distributes his subject into four chapters , on Sensation , Association , Understanding and Will . Under the first we have a distinct account of
the several organs of sense ; and how their reports correct one another . The chapter on Association is a very valuable one ; it is divided into four sections ; the first on the several Classes of Connexions , the second on the Laws of Connexions , the third
on the Composition of Ideas , and the fourth on the Origin and Formation of the Affections . But it will not allow of abridgment . After its careful perusal , the author recommends Stewart ' s chapter of Memory and Imagination , and the article Memory in the Cyclopaedia . The chapter on
the Understanding contains many judicious remarks on consciousness , attention , observation , reflection , thinking and meditation , abstraction , language , judgment , ( distinguished into comparison , intellectual perception and judgment , ) reasoning and investigation . He concludes by observing , P . 313 , c < No one has thrown so much light upon the actual procedures of the mind in
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the discovery or ascertainment of trntlr ^ as Hartley in bis seventy-sixth , seventyseventh and seventy-eighth propositions ^ particularly in the second of tbese three . It contains a fund of profound and important observations , the value of which
canhot be affected by their having among them a few opinions , which may he regarded as mere speculations ; they are the speculations of a master-mind , intent upon fcufumes of an interesting * nature , and contemplating- with pleasure whatever appeared important for the attainment of thaty vrhieh indisputably was vrith him the first
object , truth . The chapter on the Will , comprises the doctrine of motives , ( but without entering into the mazes of the liberty-and-necessity controversy , ) intentions , habits , bodily , mental and
moral ; and concludes with a recommendation of Locke , Hartley and Cogan , the articles in Rees , before referred to , and , with some exceptions , of Reid , Stewart , Tucker and Condillac , Edgeworth and Hamilton . In a note he complains of a plagiarism of the writer of Enfield's Elements of
Mental Philosophy . It might have been noticed , that the name of " Enfield , " used in this and several late elementary works , is an unwarrantable liberty taken with the just celebrity of the only real possessor of it , the late excellent Dr . W . Enfield , of Warrington , afterwards of Norwich .
We nest come to Moral Philosophy , in which , after having corrected an obvious inaccuracy in Paley , the author pursues the following division : The Nature of Conscience * and
the necessity of attention to its cultivation y Moral Obligation ; the Pur * suit of our own good ; Happiness 9 thov ^ h the ultimate object , not the wisest and best principle of action ; ( under this head are some excellent rules
from Hartley , for the regulation of the sensible , q . sensitive ? pleasures , ) Defective Criteria of Virtue ; The Will of God the best ; Essential Characteristic of Virtue ; Principles and Rules of Duty which should have the greatest weight , particularly a reg-ard to the universal obligation of Truth ; General Rules of Social Conduct :- —all of
which are so excellent , particularly in resting , throughout , the moral system upon religious prihciples , that we cannot do better than recommend them to the attentive perusal of all
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6 S 6 Review . ' S —Shepherd , Joyce and Carpenters ystematic Education .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1818, page 636, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2481/page/36/
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