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^^ tii ^^^^ r ^ ttmber ^ r *> ur icleas is compounded froro , and all ar ^ c > tygirtated fef , aensatiotis . Impressions are actually produced upon the nerves " by tl # ^ cie ^ feM ! i ofitbe ideas which were communicated thmbgh ^ tlita ^ tfgpsresj O&he&e impressions we are conscious in so many cases , that fcfe ^ feit- ^* sUb ^ on mat they exist itv all ; and that the most abstract medit ^ tonse ^ sottie degree <) f nervous influence as well as the simplest ideaaofsefiaal ^ oiv , tltt ^ ti ^ tefn ' the fif ^ t case Jt may be too farcii to fee eakiiy ^ g ^ gttifeBte ^ i vA cidse examination might perhaps convince us that a visible , audtbte ^ of
tangible image is cencerned , and may be recognized , in the most abstract j < fea i ^ u 3 i wef are <* apat > le of ibrmiog . The mathematician makes almost ; as nin& 5 hPi 3 S § b £ ^ visible images as the painter ; and the metaphyjrtcian is » ot only compelled to use pictorial language , biat to conceive , as # ell ^ HI ^ - triale ^ by" iireahs of sensible media . He feels ai > d deplores the # fticukies ^ hich ^ thtas s ^ and in the way of abstract inquiries ; but he can d ^ liufe to
remedy thern beyond introducing the greatest possible variety of illustrations , deyiVedffom the ideas of all the senses in turn . It is better to < fo < this than # flatter hirn ^ elf With the hope of a phiJosophical vocabulary of ahstraet teftins , with which it seems as improbable thai we should be furnished as that iM tbtally blind and deaf should be gifted with visible and audi . bl ^ id e as by si ^ e compassionate ghost . The pimple ideas whieh are deposited by sensation or the compound ideas which are formed by associaiion from the simple oaes ,. a ^ e awakened ,
± &&Lllefy or revived , by the action of certaia laws of suggestion . The degree of intensity in Which they present themselves depends on a multitude' of var ^ itig 1 efeo * ri staiices , connected with the state of the bocly and H » i « d . The iQe £ € & sttJ : riih 1 hirig * stream mn ^ t have been a very different thing to Muttgo Fa ^ fc'Wlieh crossing the bridge at Peebl es on a raisy November day * aad When psliehed ' v ^ ith thicst in the d ^ seFta of Africa : and even the very coinples : kfie& ' of triitfo nauSt exert a widely different influence over a mam when
diverting himself with xepartee and when absorbed in lofty ConAetnpktiori d ^ er ^ hte Bible , ^ he commonest infl u encea of daily life modify the force aif our in ^ i ^ sid ^ irei ^ confiidepabiy ; and it may therefore be anticipated that the ^^ ecdrtlirr ^ ^ operation of bodily disease and menial excitement may or > iti ^ siiM- ^ - yc ^ ^ rieater diversity . If impressions awakened by precisely tbe Wtn ^ ^ e ^ m ^^ re ^ dre ^| fo # ^ rful in the morning tMa at night , more agree-^ tn ^^ e ^ m ^^ re ^ dr ^ po ^ rfui m the morning thto at night , more
agreeabTe Mter dinner that ! before , more distinct in solitude than in company , iWoT ^^ r ^<^ irt the light thaiv ki darkness , more anianatflng in the sunehirje Ihfiijri ffi | he ^ f $ ^ J 4 t h § Mjpet $ e < kty boneeivable that they w ould be deepen ed or < t ^^ % atf ShdefiWRely gtemt ^ degree by the «* kfaordinary eMtenierits WcKSdi ^ i ' ^ ^' ' ^ * py ¦ ' '*'* >;;' - ? - ' ¦ ¦ ¦' ¦ ' ¦ ' "¦ ' l ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ' ¦ ¦" ' ¦ ' " * - ¦ :- - * " ' *¦ '; J > v - $ ^ &k& ^ & ^ Mb& % i& aegte ^ affects ihe bwiira , as the laervds . which ^ r % |^^ ^^ m ^^^ fdf imwtm th ^ ir various impressiom to' th ^ ' sub-^» cJ |^' Wlfi * : th ^^ j ^^^^^ the ^ m&jopty arfe affected whici ^ alre * ftot ^ cUlWly 1 t ^ DUfcGt ^ d With the visual or ^ coufetic uerves , ' pain is ( rfoducecf , but iid hfellucination , If the whole bruin be disturbed , deiiritim
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1830, page 754, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2590/page/26/
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