Samuel Austin Allibone

“ The very ardour, however, with which he threw himself into his system, and the very closeness with which he analyzed the facts in the case, necessarily imparted a one-sidedness to his philosophy, and led to the neglect of some other facts equally important.”—Morell’s Hist. of Mod. Philos.
“It is the first attempt to join the study of intellectual man to that of physical man.”—Cousin’s Hist. ”

“ Frequent repetition excites association, and association in its turn imparts to any one idea the power of exciting all the related ideas,—a power which belongs likewise to the vibratiundes and their miniature images. Upon this principle and theory of association, he attempts to account for all the phenomena of the mental constitution of man.”
The hypothesis of vibrations, it is well known, has been completely overthrown by Haller’s demonstration that there can be no such thing as vibrations in the nervous system. Priestley endeavours to prove that Hartley was a materialist like himself ”