ABSTRACTION, how far this process is
necessary to the ideas of a Line, a
Surface, a Solid, 62; Tooke's specu-
lations regarding, 171, 172.
Acquired Perceptions, 330, seq.
Addison, quoted as to the love of colours,

205; as to the laws of art, 241; his
taste, of what character, 363.
Eschines, his noble encomium of De-
mosthenes, 380.

Aikin, (Dr. John,) noticed as editor of
Armstrong's poem, Art of Health,

165.

Akenside, quoted as to the beauty of
colours, 204; in illustration of the
Sublime, 298, 308, 327; holds that
Taste is an original gift, 339; quoted
as to Taste, 361; as to the influence
of physical science in lending beauty
to nature, 396.

Alembert, see D'Alembert.
Alison, (Rev. Archibald,) referred to in
his Principles of Taste, 207, 208;
adduced pluries for his explanation of
Beauty on the theory of Association,
243, seq.; maintains that Taste is
not an original faculty, 336, seq.; as
to the faculty of Taste, 344.
Amati, in reference to Longinus, 463.
Andronicus Rhodius, on the title Meta-
physics, 20.

Angularity, as an agreeable or dis-
agreeable form in objects, 122, seq.;
Animal Spirits, theory of, its antiquity
and universality, 11.

Aquila Romanus, quoted, 46.
Arbuthnot, or Swift, quoted as to the
Sublime, 289.

Aristotle, on his work entitled Meta-
physics, 20; his logic too limited, 48,
seq.; his empire more durable than
that of his pupil Alexander, 52; is the
Brocard his-Nihil est in Intellectu,
&c.? 123; on Aristoxenus, 147; as to
his definition of Time and of Motion,
410; as to Definition in general, 411;
quoted as to Beauty involving magni-
tude, 233; in illustration of transitive
epithets applied to Beauty, 250; the
True is not always the Probable, 271;
his description of magnanimity re-
ferred to in illustration of the Sublime,
318.

Aristoxenus, (the Musician,) explains
the soul by Harmony, 147.
Armstrong, on his notion of Spirit, 165.
Association of Ideas, inept as a general
theory to account for the mental
phænomena, 11, seq.; (see Hartley;)
influence of, in education, 44, 46; in
the production of the Beautiful, 207,
seq., 226, 227; theory of, in its appli-
cation to Beauty, 242-255; effect of,
in making personal deformities agree-
able, 364, 365.

Astrology, adduced in reference to the
Sublime, 291.

Astronomy, a science of observation not
of experiment, 29, seq.

Attention, influence of, in education, 46.

BACON, quoted to show that even his
shortcomings or errors may be of use,
25; on the value of his ipsissima verba,
ib.; his maxim that Knowledge is
Power, vindicated to him, and illus-
trated, 26, seq., 47; quoted, 38; his
Logic, 40, seq.; not limited to physi-
cal science, 42; on the art of inven-
tion, 50; his peculiar merit, 52; how
men corrupt philosophy, 146, 147; on
physical metaphors applied to mental
philosophy, 152; on the reaction of
language upon thought, 172; quoted
in illustration of the Sublime, bis,

314.

Bailly, quoted in illustration of the Sub-

lime, 329; correction in regard to the
quotation from, (Note NN,) 451.
Baker, uses the word palate metaphori-
cally for Taste, 346.

Bauzée, his etymological criticisms
praised, 179.

Baxter, (Andrew,) his strictures upon
Berkeley, 115; his conception of
Matter, 140; upon the Primary and
Secondary Qualities of Matter, or
upon Perception and Sensation, 421.
Beattie, his use of the term Psychology,

20; on the term Sentiment, 416.
Beautiful, on, in general, 191-274;-I. in
objects of Sense, 191-261; to what
qualities is the Beautiful in sense ap-
plied, 191, seq.; its primitive applica-
tion to objects of sight, 191, 203; is
it applicable only to the perception of
relations? 192, seq.; that there is no
common objective quality to which
the term can be applied, ib.; how the
word came to be applied to such dif-
ferent qualities, 195, seq.; progressive
generalization of the term from ob-
jects of sight to other objects, that is
its transitive extensions, 203, sej.;
first ideas of Beauty derived from
colours, 204, seq.; Beauty in the
second place applied to forms, 205,
seq.; to motions, 206, seq.; this
Beauty is specially called Grace, ib.;

this enlargement of the signification
of the word not in consequence of any
common quality in objects, because
though they all agree in pleasing,
they please upon principles essen-
tially different, 207 Beauty of regu
larity, 209, seq.; Beauty of variety
and natural Beauty, 211, seq.; Burke
is wrong in holding that there is any
common objective quality of itself
beautiful, and that this quality is that
of producing an agreeable relaxation,
214-218; the Beautiful in contrast to
the Picturesque, 224, seq.; why and
under what circumstances deviations
from the straight line are pleasing?
226; Beauty from Utility, 226, seq.;
latitude in the use of the word de-
fended by the author, objected to by
Burke and Price, 228, seq.; not op-
posed to the Sublime, 223, seq.; does
it involve a certain size? ib. how it
stands to the Pretty, le Joli, &c., 233;
Beauty from expression of intelligence,
and especially of moral qualities, 247,
seq.; as arising from Order, Fitness,
Utility, Symmetry, 249, seq.; from
Unity, (Note QQ,) 453, 454; as aris-
ing from the most customary form, a
theory proposed by Buffier and Rey-
nolds, (but correspondent to that of
Polygnotus,) 256-261; this theory cri-
ticised, 257-261;-II. in objects of
Imagination, 262-274; how the word
becomes most general in its applica-
tion to imaginary objects, 266; see

Taste.

Belsham, favours the theory of cerebral
vibrations in the case of Memory, &c.,
8, 9.

Berkeley, his Idealism, 11, 85; as inter-
preted by Diderot, 66; on Ideas, 70,
71; on his Idealism, in general, 87-
119; mistakes in regard to his theory,
87-100; a bona fide Idealist founding
on the common sense of mankind, 89;
his view of the Primary and Secon-
dary Qualities of Matter, 113, 114,
115; his interview with Clarke, 418;
quoted as to the Secondary Qualities,
430; on the notion of Extension,
431.

Bible, quoted as to the Sublime, 292,
300, 319, 325.

Biran, (Maine de,) see Maine-Biran.
Blair, (Rev. Dr. Hugh,) his theory of the
Sublime, that it involves mighty
power or force, 278; holds that Taste
is an original faculty, 339.

Blind are they insensible to Beauty?
(Note S,) 437.

Boethius, on the Platonic Ideas, 415.
Boileau, the True may sometimes be the
Improbable, 271; quoted as to criti-
cal envy, 379, 380.

Bos, (Abbé du,) quoted on the Pictur-
esque, (Note U,) 438.
Boscovich, his physical theory, 87, 93-
95, 106, 115, 429.

Bossuet, the sublime of, (Note NN,)
451, 452.

Boyle, on the instruction to be drawn
from artisans, 45.

Briggs, (Dr. William,) taught Sir Isaac
Newton the hypothesis of Cerebral
Vibrations, 11.

Brown, ("Capability,") on landscape-
gardening, 240.

Bruyère, (La,) adduced as to what he
calls le gout de comparaison, 370;
quoted as to admiration being a cri-
terion of the highest taste, 374; as to
critical envy, 379.

Brydone, adduced in illustration of the
Sublime, 309.

Buffier, on his theory of the Beautiful,
256-261.

Burke, quoted, 112; his use of the verb
to handle, 183, 184; referred to, 203;
in regard to the Beautiful, 208, 212;
remarks on some of his principles in
regard to Beauty not in accordance
with those of the Author, 213, 241;
his principle rejected, that there is
some common quality to which the
epithet Beautiful may be applied, and
also that this common quality is that
which produces an agreeable relaxa-
tion, 214-218; special refutation of
his theory in regard to smoothness,
219, seq.; objects to the latitude in
the use of the word Beauty, 228, seq.;
wrong in making smallness a consti-
tuent of Beauty, 233; quoted as to
the transitive epithets applied to
beauty in certain languages, 250; his
theory of the Sublime, that it involves
the Terrible, 277; adduced in illustra-
tion of the Sublime, 309; praised as
holding correct views in regard to the
acquired nature of Taste, 354; repre-
hended as excluding Fitness, &c. from
the notion of Beauty, 358; on the
character of his genius, 371; quoted
as to the greater sensibility of Ima-
gination in youth, 393.
Butler, (Bishop,) on Locke's theory of
Personal Identity, 60.

CAMPBELL, (Principal,) in what extent
he uses the word Physiology, 19, 20;
on what he establishes our expecta-
tion of Nature's Constancy, 102, 103;
on the words Sentiment, sentimental,
415, 416; quoted touching Etymology,

435.

Campbell, (Thomas,) quoted in illustra-
tion of the Sublime, 328.

Cardan, (Jerome,) in regard to Species,

428.

Cause, the ambiguity of the word in
Greek led to the fourfold division of
the Aristotelians, 194.
Cervantes, quoted in illustration of Taste,
343.

Chenevix, (Richard,) on chemical ele-
ments, 14.

Churchill, quoted in illustration of the
Sublime, 303.

Cicero, quoted in illustration of Reflec-
tion, 56; on Aristoxenus, 147; on the
metaphorical terms for Mind, 164; the
meanness of an ethical system proves
its unsoundness, 175; quoted in regard
to the transitive extension of words,
199; as to the Beautiful, 227, 248;
as to the Picturesque, 239, 240; in
illustration of the Sublime, bis, 299;
again, 312, 317, 324; uses the term
Stomachus in our metaphorical sense
of the word Taste, 345; quoted as to
beauty from Fitness, &c., 358; quoted
as to the encomium by Eschines
upon Demosthenes, 381.
Cogan, (Dr.) referred to, 11.
Cogito ergo sum of Descartes, its char-
acter, 58, seq.

Collins, (the poet,) quoted in illustration
of the Sublime, 325, 328.
Colour and Extension, their inseparabi-
lity in thought accounted for by Asso-
ciation, 245.

Colouring, on, (Note Y,) 441.

Common Sense, see Sensus Communis.
Conception, what import given to the
word by the author, to wit, simple
representation, 262, seq.; subservient
to Imagination, 264.

Condillac, his interpretation of Locke,
66, 121, 122; on his notion of Ex-
tension, 431; approves of Locke's
etymological metaphysics, 434.
Condorcet, his interpretation of Locke,
123, 124.

Congreve, uses the word palate meta-
phorically for Taste, 346.
Consciousness, how far the French word

conscience corresponds to this, 56;

what is it? 58; to be discriminated
from Reflection, 61, 433.
Consummate, in connexion with the
Sublime, (Note K K,) 449.
Coup d'œil militaire, what, 336, (Note
00,) 452.

Cowley, quoted as to beautiful imagery,
266; in illustration of the Sublime,
314.

Criticism, cant of, or fastidiousness of
Taste, 368, 369.

Crousaz, on physical metaphors to ex-
press metaphysical phænomena, 57;
on Perception and Sensation, or on
the Primary and Secondary Qualities
of Matter, 420.
Cudworth, holds that the Intellect itself

is a source of ideas, 75, 415; that Moral
distinctions are not apprehended by
Sense but by Reason, 84; employs the
term Common Sense in the meaning
of simple representation or conception,
262.

D'ALEMBERT, on the proper use of the
term Discovery, 43; on the Logic of
Mathematics, 50; on the origin of
our ideas, 78; our belief in the exist-
ence of matter a species of Instinct,
111; on the French bigotry to old
opinions in science, and to no-
velty in matters of taste, 126, 127;
objects to Du Marsais's proscription
of Figurative terms, 173; his sketch
on Synonyms praised, 179; on the
Primary and Secondary Qualities of
Matter, or upon Perception and Sen-
sation, 421; on the Secondary Quali-
ties, 430; approves of Locke's etymo-
logical metaphysics, 434; on the
change of the signification of words
by extension, 197, 198; how far a sen-
sibility to matters of Imagination is
stronger in youth, 395; his use of the
word tact, (Note PP,) 453.
Darwin, noticed as a metaphysical ro-
mancer, 7; on his metaphysical
theory in general, 144, seq.; in regard
to the origin of our knowledge, he
certainly considered Ideas to be ma-
terial things, and in this goes beyond
Diderot, 144, 147; Ideas he regards
as vibrations of the medullary sub-
stance of the brain, 145; the doctrine
that Ideas are sensible representations
or pictures, he, with Priestley, &c.,
considers as mere metaphor, 144, 145;
on the generation of the world, 147;

hails Tooke's philological discoveries,
and the conclusions to which they are
to lead, 174.

Davis, (Sir John,) verses in regard to
psychological theories, 147; his em-
ployment of the phrase Common Sense
in the meaning of conception, or re-
presentation, 262.

Definition, on the conditions and history
of, (Note B,) 410, 411.
Degerando, on the rage for simplifica-
tion in the philosophy of the mind,
14; on Kant's Theory of Space and
Time, 117; on the influence of Locke
in France, 120; on Condillac's sys-
tem, 122; on excessive generaliza-
tion, 126; praised as superior to most
French philosophers, 128, 129; his
original text given, 432; alleged,

130-132.

Descartes, his Animal Spirits, 10; his

cogito ergo sum, 58; his Innate Ideas,
73; sanctions the Ideal theory, 77:
originated Berkeley's Idealism, 88;
as to Definition, 410, 411; quoted as
to the import of the term Idea, 413;
as to his partiality for squinting from
Association, 364.

Destutt-Tracy, his admiration of Con-

dillac, 121; his term Idéologie, 127,
128; on his notion of Extension,
431.

Diderot on Locke and Berkeley, 66;
his interpretation of Locke, 125;
quoted in regard to Beauty, 192, 193,
194.

Digby, (Sir Kenelm), on the materiality
of our Ideas, 145, 426.
Drummond, (Sir William,) as to his de-
fence of the Ideal theory against
Reid, 414.

Dryden, quoted as to the proprieties of
the English tongue, 181; as to the
Picturesque, 231; in illustration of
the Sublime, 308.

Dutens, quoted as to the perception of
beauties being a better criterion of
Taste than the detection of faults,
(Note R R,) 454.

EDINBURGH REVIEW, difficulties in the
study of Mind, 24, seq. (see Jeffrey);
Article by Dr. Thomas Brown?

118.

Elements of the Philosophy of the

Human Mind, why interrupted, 3.
Elevation, in relation to the Sublime,
278, 279, 291, seq., 317-321, 324, (Note

Encyclopedia Britannica, how the au-
thor of the article Philosophy ex-
plains our expectation of the Constancy
of Nature, 104..

Ennius, quoted as to Sublimity, 291.
Epicharmus, Sir William Jones contra-
dicted in regard to, 108.

Eschenbach, quoted in illustration of
the Sublime, 326.

Essays: these Philosophical Essays,
reason of, 3.

Eternity, how sublime, (Note E E,) 445.
Etymological Metaphysics, on, in ge-
neral, (Note P,) 433, 434.
Excellent, in connexion with the Sub-
lime, (Note K K,) 449.
Experience, according to Locke, all our
knowledge originates in, 63, 134; can
only inform us of what is, and not of
what must be of what is actual, not
of what is necessary, 135, 136.
Experiment: experimental philosophy,
28, seq.

Expression, Beauty from, 247.
Extension, notion of, suggested, 61,
seq., 83, 114, seq.; see Space; how
suggested, 419; on, in general, (Note
M,) 431, 432; its notion presupposes
those of Motion and of Time, ib.;
Extension and Colour, their insepara-
bility in thought accounted for by
Association, 245.

FANCY, (Phantasia,) nearly correspon-
dent to Imagination, 264.
Fictitious narratives, a too exclusive
familiarity with, tend to weaken our
interest in the ordinary business of
the world, 274.

Figure, notion of, suggested, 61, seq.;
how suggested, 419.

Folard, (Chevalier,) adduced in regard
to the coup d'œil militaire, 336.
Fontaine (La,) quoted on Materialism,
166; as to Female Beauty, 246.
Fontenelle, quoted, 118; as to the Sub-
lime in Geometry, (Note H H,) 448.
Forbes, (Lord President Duncan,) in
regard to Second Sight, 428.
Frazer, (Mr. John,) his explanation of
Sensible Species, from his Discourse
concerning the Second Sight, 427, 428.

GENIUS, does it adulterate philosophy,
315, 316.

Gerard, quoted as praising and criticis-
ing Reid, 316; maintains that Taste
is not an original faculty, 336, seq.
Gillies, (Dr.) his vindications of Aris-
totle, 123, 411.

Gilpin, quoted as to the Picturesque,
232, 237-239; criticised, 235; ad-
duced as to the effect of the plano-
convex mirror in surveying land-
scapes, 269, 270; on the Picturesque,
(Note U,) 438.

Girard, his etymological criticisms
praised, 179.

Go to, on the phrase, 184.

Grace, or beauty of motion, 206, seq.
Gravesande, on the hypothesis of Ideas,

413; quoted in regard to the term
instinct, 429; praised and criticised,
430.

Gray, quoted as to the love of colour,
205; in illustration of the Beautiful,
250; of the Sublime, ter, 286, 287;
again, 295, 298, 302, 308, 310, 325;
in relation to a theory of Plato in re-
gard to Taste, 370; as to admiration,
a quality of true Taste, 374; curious
violation of this in a criticism of his
own, 379; seeming reversal of the
effect of critical envy, 380; quoted
on the pleasures of vicissitude, 389;
as to the perception of beauties being
a better criterion of Taste than the
detection of faults, (Note R R,) 454.
Gresset, quoted in illustration of Taste,

360.

Guibert, quoted as to the military coup
d'œil, 335.

HABITS, extraordinary rapidity of
thought determined by, 333.
Harbinger, adduced to shew the illu-
sions of Etymology, 182.

Harpe, (La,) quoted as to the history of
the word gout, 344; as to our judg-
ments of Taste being in proportion to
our general intelligence, 383.
Harris, quoted against Sensationalism,
75; on Innate Ideas, 77; on the bro-
card, Nihil est in Intellectu, &c., 123.
Hartley, noticed as a metaphysical ro-
mancer, 7; his theory of vibrations, 9,
10, 14, 15, 147; on his metaphysical
theory in general, 137, seq.; a doc-
trine of Sensationalism, 138; explains
everything by Association, 16-18; in
this coincident with Condillac and
Bonnet, 139; not however a Materi-
alist, ib.