Hath and has, &c., in regard to their use, 436.
Height, see Elevation.
Helvetius, his interpretation of Locke, 123; his theory of the Sublime, that it involves the Terrible, 277. Hill, (Aaron,) quoted in illustration of the false sublime, 328. Hindoo Idealism, 107, 108.
Hobbes, quoted as to the Peripatetic doctrine of Species, 424; first to start the idea of an etymological metaphy- sic, 434.
Hogarth, referred to in regard to the
theory of Beauty, 208; his waving
line or line of beauty referred to, 225. Home, (Henry, Lord Kames,) see Kames. Homer, quoted as to female Beauty,
246, 247; in illustration of the Sub- lime, 297, 301, quater, 311, 312; again, 313; quoted for a sublime pas- sage, (Note FF,) 447.
Hooke, (Dr.) on the nature of Ideas, 145, 146, 426.
Horace, quoted, 160; in illustration of
the Beautiful, 250; of the Sublime, 282, 328; uses the word palate in our metaphorical meaning of Taste, 345; quoted as to critical envy, 379; quot- ed, 404.
Hughes, praised as holding correct opinions in regard to the nature of Taste, 355.
Hume, on the limitation of the term Association, 17, 18; his Idealism founded on the ideal hypothesis touch- ing Perception, 48; his acceptance of the Ideal theory, 71, 72; on Locke's vague usage of the word Idea, 79; pushed the consequences of the reduc- tion of Vice and Virtue to Perceptions to its ultimate conclusion, 82, seq.; his Scepticism, its good and evil con- sequences, 85, 86; relation to Ber- keley as an Idealist, 89, 90; founds our expectation of the Stability of Nature on Association, 101; objection to and solution of this, both given by Hume, 102, see 104; does not go so far as Diderot in Sensationalism, 125; quoted as to Experience, 136; adduced, 147; quoted as to Idea, 413, 423; his employment of the term Sentiment, 416; his use of the word Instinct, 429; his view in regard to Taste gen- erally approved of, 343: observes that a great genius is prone to admiration, 374; quoted on the pleasure we re- ceive from an eloquent portraiture of
painful objects, 441; in his theory of the Sublime partly anticipates the Author, (Note A A,) 442, 443; how he accounts for the association of an- tiquity with elevation, 445. Hutcheson, how he accepted Locke's doctrine touching the Origin of our ideas, 73; really only follows Aris- totle in making Extension, Figure, Motion, Rest, to be more properly the concomitants of sight and touch, than sensations of either of these senses, 73, 74; admits, in uniformity with Locke, that all our Fundamental ideas (ie., not relations) must be derived from a Sense, 74, 81; this doctrine criticised, 74; opposed to Locke's conclusions against Innate practical principles, otherwise coincides with him, 81; apprehensive of the conse- quences of his reduction of Vice and Virtue to Perceptions, 81, 82; had however a plausible defence in his doctrine of the suggested qualities of Extension, Figure, and Motion, (but which was only borrowed from Aris- totle,) 83, see also in regard to his doctrine of Primary Qualities, 420; quoted on the word Beauty, 191. Hutton, (Dr. James,) his Idealism, 96- 99, 114.
IDEA, historical notices of the word, (Notes C, D,) 411, 415. Ideal Theory, as held by Locke, 66-69,
72; by Leibnitz, 69; by Berkeley, 70; by Hume, 71. Idealism:-that of Berkeley, on, in gen- eral, 87-119, (Note F,) 417, 418; mis- takes in regard to this theory, 87-100; tendency to Idealism by Plato, 88; by Malebranche, 106; by Leibnitz, 107; Hume's Idealism, and compared with Berkeley's, 89, 90; this theory according to Boscovich, 93-96; to Hutton, 96-99; the Idealism of Ber- keley, Hutton, Boscovich, compared, 98-100; the Hindoo Idealism, 107, 108; strictures on the various opin- ions touching the existence and non- existence of matter, 108-110; accord- ing to D'Alembert, our belief in the existence of the material world, a species of Instinct, 111. Ideas, Locke varies in placing those of material things sometimes in the Brain, sometimes in the Mind, 66; latent or innate in the Mind, 77; how
the word idea may be properly under- stood, ib.; how the sources of, to be traced, 148; common prejudices which influence our explanations of, ib. Identity, (personal,) 59; obtained by Consciousness and Memory, 59, 60. Ideology, a term adopted in France for
Sensationalism, 127, 128. Imagination, in what sense used by the Author, to wit, as creative represen- tation, 264, seq.; what sense ministers more especially to Imagination, 264; how this faculty conduces to the Beautiful, 266, seq.; things pleasing in imagination (imitation) displeasing in reality, 271; relish for the plea- sures of, supposed in the faculty of Taste, 386, seq.; what does it sup- pose? 387, seq.; is it more vigorous in the earlier periods of society? 399- 406; when productive of more plea- sure, is productive of less pain, 404. Imitation, things pleasing as imitated may be displeasing as real, 271. Immensity, (in Space,) how Sublime, (Note E E,) 445.
Impulse, according to Locke, the only way in which bodies can operate or produce ideas in us, 66. Indian, see Hindoo.
Innate:-Innate Idea, on the word, 79, seq.; Locke has quibbled on it, ib.; Shaftesbury's strictures on his per- version, ib.; they were, however, in this respect, nearly at one, 80; on In- nate Ideas, 130. Instinct, on,
in general, (Note K,) 429, 430; frequently employed too vaguely, 429, see 111.
Intellect, (see Understanding, Reason;) is it an original source of our know- ledge? See Knowledge.
JEFFREY, (Francis,) difficulties in re- gard to the study of Mind, 24, seq. Job, quoted in illustration of the Sub- lime, 325.
Johnson, (Dr.) on the term Sentiment, 416; on his philology in general, (Note R,) 435, 436; on his etymolo- gies, ib.; adduced as to the meaning of picturesque, 230; quoted as to a certain modification of Taste, 361; as to the effect of association in making even faults agreeable, 365; his criti- cal decisions often perverse, 377, 378 ¦ quoted, 388; on the association of antiquity with elevation, 445.
Jones, (Sir William,) quoted on the Hindoo Idealism, 107, 108; his evi- dence adduced in regard to Indian opinion touching the Sublime, 291,
Juvenal, quoted in illustration of the Sublime, 319.
KAMES, (Henry Home, Lord,) his use of the verb to handle, 183; his theory of the Sublime, that it involves a beautiful object placed high, 278; of the sublimity of the quotation, "Let there be light," &c. (Note D D,) 444. Kant, on Space and Time, 116-118, 420; contrasted with Reid, 422. Knight, (Mr. Payne,) quoted in regard to the transitive extensions of the term Beautiful, 196; referred to on Burke's theory of the Sublime, 275; his own theory of the Sublime, that it involves great mental energy, 278. Knowledge, (human,) sources of, ac- cording to Locke, 55; on, in general, 55-86; classification by our Author of the principal opinions in regard to the origin of our knowledge, 130-136. "Knowledge is power," a saying of Bacon, authentic, 26; importance of the precept, 47.
LA HARPE, see Harpe. Language, very imperfect as an organ of mental intercourse, 153, seq.; in what sense it can be called the ex- press image of thought," 154; the mind, with astonishing quickness, takes and supplies the hints given to it by language, 153-156; transposi- tions in the arrangement of words, 155; language, in its etymology, does not show the intellectual process of thought, as Mr. Tooke supposes, 159; the Author does not proscribe, like Du Marsais, Figurative terms in phi- losophy, but proposes to vary the metaphors, 173; to understand the present import of a word, it is not ne- cessary to trace the historical progress of its past meanings, 178, seq.; a word, in passing from one language to another, frequently changes alto- gether its original meaning, 180. Leibnitz, on the resemblance of our ideas to their archetypes, 68, 69; his criticism of Locke, 76; his metaphy- sical reveries referred to, 106; ten-
dency to Idealism,-considers Matter as a mere well regulated Phænomenon, 107; quoted as to Truth, 133; his cri- ticism of Locke in regard to Necessary truths, 135; Leibnitz and the Suffi- cient Reason referred to in explana- tion of our love of regular forms and uniform arrangements, 209, seq. Lille, (Abbé de,) quoted on the phæno-
mena of Memory, (Note Q,) 434, 435; on the beauty of a lake, 224; on beauty through Association, 244; quoted, 439, 445.
Livy, quoted in illustration of the Sub- lime in Depth, 285, 308; as to Philo- pomen, 335, 336.
Locke, aware that no light was to be obtained in psychology from physio- logy, 7, 8; his limitation of the prin- ciple of Association, 16, 17; on the divisions of Philosophy, 19; his spe- culations valuable, not so much as enlarging our knowledge as in making us conscious of our ignorance, 48; his account of the sources of human knowledge, on, in general, 55-86, (Note O,) 432, 433; Reid's criticism of this, 432; how his philosophy was understood by Hume, 63; quotations from himself in statement of, 63, seq.; how far his philosophy may be ad- mitted, 65; may, however, be inter- preted to mean much that is repre- hensible, 65, seq.; the import of the Ideal theory as held by him, 69; against Innate Ideas, 79, 80; his con- troversy, however, merely verbal, 80, 81; theory of Matter, 94; his autho- rity in France, 120-136; but his doc- trines there very variously interpreted by the different philosophers, 120, seq.; our Author's enumeration of these various interpretations, 130, seq.; his philosophy understood by the ladies of Paris, 131; never men- tions Bacon, 133; in what meaning his maxim should be understood, that all our knowledge originates in Ex- perience, 133, seq.; as to Definition, 410; as to his import of the word Idea, 412; on the term Sentiment, 416; on the creation of Matter, 429; anticipated Mr. Tooke in his etymo- logical metaphysics, 433.
Logic, conditions of a just and compre- hensive system of, 49, seq.; logic of morals, 50.
Longinus, his description of the Sub- lime, that it fills the reader with a
glorying and sense of inward great- ness, 278, see also 318, 381; on his phraseology in regard to the Sublime, 288; on his quoting, "Let there be light," &c., as an instance of the Sub- lime, 294; on the false sublime, 328; translation by Akenside of a passage from, (Note LL.) 451; on his com- parison of the Sublime to a flash of lightning, (Note M M,) 451.
Lowth, on the use of hath and doth for has and does, 436.
Lucan, quoted in illustration of the Sub- lime, 305.
Lucretius, quoted as holding a theory of beauty corresponding to Burke's, 215; in illustration of the Sublime, 295, 297; referred to in illustration of the Sublime, 305.
Mathematical Affections of Matter es- tablished and characterized, 115- 119.
Mathematics, (both Geometry and Arith- metic,) our technical language in, is borrowed from the physical proper- ties of matter, 170.
Matter, Creation of, (Note 1,) 429. Matter and Mind, our notions of both merely relative-merely phænomenal, 5, seq.; our present life may be only a Dream, held by Plato, Maximus Tyrius, Shakspeare, Voltaire, &c., 88; Matter a mere phænomenon, impli citly the doctrine of Malebranche and Boscovich, explicitly avowed by Leib- nitz, Robison, and others, 106, 107: strictures on the various opinions touching the existence and non-exist-
ence of Matter, 108-110; according to D'Alembert, our belief in the exist- ence of the Material world a species of Instinct, 111; Primary and Secondary Qualities of, 113, seq. Maupertuis, the first in France to avow himself a Newtonian, 127. Maximus Tyrius, admits that our pre- sent existence may be only a Dream, 88. Memory, how far necessary to our no- tions of Identity, 60, 62; of Time, 62; of Motion, ib.; the metaphorical expressions in relation to, 168, 169. Metaphors, mixed, on their use, 185. Metaphysics, how this word came to de- nominate a part or the whole of the philosophy of the human mind, 20; on the vagueness of the term, 32, 39. Milton, quoted for the word grotesque, corresponding to picturesque, 238; in illustration of the Sublime, ter, 292, 293; in the same relation, 294, 318, 324, 326; in regard to the proneness of good taste to admiration, 375; to shew that High may be in science correspondent with Profound, (Note H H,) 449.
Mind, (philosophy of,) prevalent errors regarding, in general, 5, seq.; of Mind, as of Matter, our notions mere- ly relative or phænomenal, ib.; our knowledge of, founded altogether on Observation and Induction, 6, seq., 32, seq.; how far to the exclusion of Experiment, 31, seq.; all Physiolo- gical theories inept, 6, seq.; on this the opinion of Locke, 7, seq.; Bel- sham's hypothesis of cerebral and nervous Vibrations, particularly no- ticed as thus incompetent, 8, seq.; par- ticularly noticed also is the Hartleian theory of Association, 11, seq.; this, likewise, incompetent, 12, seq.; how this philosophy came to be connected with Metaphysics, 20; some objec- tions to it obviated, 23-54; Anatomy of the Mind compared with the Ana- tomy of the Body, 35, seq.; modern scepticism in regard to the philosophy of the Mind contrasted with that of antiquity, 37; paramount influence of, 39, seq., 43; improvement of, the great object of Bacon, 39, seq., 42; influence of, on the happiness of so- ciety, 41, seq.; why the philosophers of Mind are less vulgarly renowned than the philosophers of matter, 53; intellectual and moral operations, how
did they obtain a name? 149, seq.; answer, 10. by a species of Induction, 150; 2° by metaphorical or analogi- cal Extension, 151, seq.; names of abstract notions taken originally from Sensible objects, but not therefore themselves sensible in their subse- quent applications, 152, seq., 159- 188; Mind appears a sorry me- chanism in the writings of Hartley, Priestley, Darwin, or Tooke, 175; its study useful in correcting an undue ascendency of Imagination or Taste, 392, seq.
Mitchell precedes Priestley in his doc- trine of Matter, 140.
Monro, (Dr. Alex., Primus,) on the uni- versality of the hypothesis of Animal Spirits, 11.
Montaigne, quoted as to rapidity of thought in chess, 334.
Montesquieu, quoted as to Beauty, 234. Moral distinctions, not from Sense but from Reason, 83.
More, (Dr. Henry,) that the world was
generated, not created, 148.
Motion, idea of, involves those of Exten- sion and Time, 119; how obtained, 419, 420.
NAPOLEON, (Bonaparte,) in confirmation of Bacon's Aphorism that "Know- ledge is Power," 38. Natural signs, see Signs. Nature, Constancy of, our Expectation of
this, on what founded, 106, 135. Necessary truths, there are such, 135. Newton, (Sir Isaac,) his conclusions contrasted with his queries, 10; his conjecture touching the Creation of Matter, 429; as to his quasi-intuitive apprehension of truth, 332, seq. Nihil est in Intellectu quod non prius fuerit in Sensu, 123, et alibi. Novels, see Fictitious narratives.
OBSERVATION, philosophy of, 28, seq.; as opposed to strictly experimental philosophy, 29, seq. Ocean, how a sublime object, 309, 310, seq.
Olympiodorus, on the Platonic Ideas, 414. Ontology, 21.
Origin of human knowledge, see Know- ledge.
Outness, on the word, 116.
Ovid, quoted as to the spear of Achilles,
86; as to moral duty, 254; as to Sublimity, in relation to Astronomy, 281; as to Sublimity (elevation) in the human countenance, 318; quoted, 394, 446.
PARR, (Rev. Dr. Samuel,) on the deriva- tion of the word sublimis,-quod supra limum, 455-462; on the authorship of the treatise On the Sublime attributed to Longinus, 462, 463; in this follows Amati and Weiske, ib.; in favour of Tonstal's emendation, 464, 465; his oversights or inadvertencies, 460, 464. Paterculus, quoted in regard to the transitive extension of words, 199. Pathos, Pathetic, what, (Note CC,) 444; pathetic in relation to the Sub- lime, (Note K K,) 449, 450; its con- nexion with Humour, 450.
Pearce, adduced as to a reading of Lon- ginus, 288.
Perception, Reid's philosophy of, 47; as opposed to Sensation, 418, 419. Peripatetics, as to the import of Species, Phantasm, Idea, 412.
Petronius, uses sapor in our sense of Taste, 344, 345.
Philopomen, adduced as having the military coup d'œil, 335.
Philosophy, ancient Greek, how divided, 19, seq.
Picturesque, as contrasted with the Beautiful, 224, seq., 230, seq.; what, (Note U,) 438.
Pindar, quoted in illustration of the Sub- lime, 298.
Plato, makes Reason (Intelligence) not Sense, the criterion of our moral judg- ments, 84, 85; his tendency to a doubt in regard to the external world, 88- 108; Sir William Jones contradicted in regard to, 108; adduced as thinking that Beauty literally denotes a quality not of Matter but of Mind, 247; how his philosophy is called sublime, 293, 325; quoted as to acquired dexteri- ties, 333; as to the cook's judgment of the agreeable in a dish, 346; as to Taste, 370.
Platonic Ideas, (Note D,) 414, 415. Pliny, (the elder), quoted as to the Beautiful in painting, 235, 241. Pliny, (the younger,) uses the term stomachus in our metaphorical sense of the word Taste, 345. Plutarch, his evidence adduced as to the
effect of Association in making de- formities agreeable, 365. Pneumatology, 20, 21.
Polybius, quoted as to acquired Percep- tions, 331.
Pope, quoted in illustration of the Sub- lime, 288, 328; in illustration of Tact, 347; that a critic should be himself a model, 378. Prejudice-error; the correction of one is frequently more important than the acquisition of many truths, 51, 52. Prévost, Dedication to him, 1; on the want in the French language of a word for Consciousness, 56; referred to with relation to Kant, 118; as a critic of Condillac, 122.
Price, (Mr. Uvedale,) quoted in regard to Burke's theory of Beauty, 221; in regard to the Picturesque, 224, seq., 230, 236-240; objects to the latitude in the use of the word Beauty, 228, seq., criticised, 235; referred to on Burke's theory of the Sublime, 275; quoted on the discrimination of the Beautiful and the Picturesque, (Note X,) 439, seq.
Price, (Rev. Dr. Richard,) on Innate
Ideas, 77; that moral distinctions are not apprehended by Sense but by Reason, 84; quoted on abstract ideas,
Priestley, noticed as a metaphysical romancer, 7; his hypothetical as- sumptions, and assault upon Reid, 11, 12; that Reid criticised the Ideal theory seriously, albeit the expres- sions of philosophers were only meant metaphorically, 68, 88, 422; this opinion of Priestley refuted, (Note H,) 422-428; quoted in refutation of himself, 423; on his metaphysical theory in general, 139, seq.; an am- biguous kind of Materialist, 139, 140; his earlier scheme makes Matter in a manner immaterial, 140; in his sub- sequent writings a more determined Materialist, 141; but always a psy- chological Unitarian, ib.; his doctrine of moral Necessity founded on his psychological Materialism, 142; this ironically advanced by Berkeley pre- viously, 143; he has not improved Berkeley's conception of Materialism, ib.; in regard to the Origin of our knowledge he probably regarded Ideas as themselves material, 144; treated as metaphorical the language of those philosophers who describe Ideas or
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