David Hartley

“ An inquiry how far the actions of walking, handling, and speaking, are agreeable to the foregoing theory 161
Section VIII.
The Relation which the foregoing Theory bears to the Art of Physic.
The art of physic affords many proper tests of the doctrines of vibrations and association; and may receive considerable improvement from them, if they be true 166
CHAP. III.
CONTAINING A PARTICULAR APPLICATION OF THE FOREGOING THEORY TO THE PHAENOMENA OF IDEAS, OR OF UNDERSTANDING, AFFECTION, MEMORY, AND IMAGINATION.
Section I.
Words, and the Ideas associated with them. ”

“ It follows from the foregoing theory of our intellectual pleasures and pains, as well as from other ways of considering them, that the bulk of mankind are not qualified for pure, unmixed happiness 572
It follows from the declarations of the Scriptures, that the bulk of mankind are not qualified for the mansions of the blessed 573
A practical application of this doctrine to the real circumstances of mankind 574
Section V.
The final Happiness of all Mankind in some distant future State. ”

“ The doctrine of sounds illustrates and favours that of the vibrations of the small medullary particles 145
The manner and degree in which agreeable and disagreeable sounds contribute, according to the doctrine of association, to the formation of our intellectual pleasures and pains 146 The ideas generated by audible impressions 147
The automatic motions excited by impressions made on the ear 149
The manner and degree in which these automatic motions are influenced by voluntary and semi-voluntary powers 150
Section VI.
The Desire of the Sexes towards each other. ”

“ Five notions of infinite benevolence considered and compared together 338 There is but one God 341 God is a spiritual Being ib. God is an eternal and omnipresent Being 343 God is an immutable Being 344 God is a free Being ib. ”