The book Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind V. 1 was written by author Stewart, Dugald, 1753-1828 Here you can read free online of Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind V. 1 book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind V. 1 a good or bad book?
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Aristot. dc Memor. et Reminisc. vol. i. p. 681, Edit. Du Val. OF THE HUMAN MIND. 213 tion which commonly take place when we are careless and disengaged. Every person must be offended with the second line of the following couplet, which forms part of a very sublime description of the Divine Power : " Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part, As full, as perfect, in a Hair as Heart." Essay on Man, Ep. 1. To these observations,- it may be added, that things which have no known relation to eac...h other, are often associated, in consequence of their producing similar ef- fects on the mind. Some of the finest poetical allusions are founded on this principle ; and, accordingly, if the reader is not possessed of sensibility congenial to that of the poet, he will be apt to overlook their meaning, or to censure them as absurd. To such a critic it would not be easy to vindicate the beauty of the following stanza, in an Ode addressed to a lady by the author of The Seasons: " Oh thou, whose tender, serious eye Expressive speaks the soul I love ; The gentle azure of the sky, The pensive shadows of the grove." I have already said, that the view of the subject which I propose to take, does not require a complete enume- ration of our principles of association.
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