Hi Naikies respecting New Booh. 



" Locke's book being expelled from Oxford, found a moi-ft 

 ample reception at Cambridge : for, though a Feilow of Emma- 

 nuel College ventured to write a sturdy voUiriie* against biS 

 Essay, it soon became a text book in the University, and the 

 ablest meiaphvsicians were proud to be its critics and commen- 

 tators. Hartlevf was a disciple of Locke's school : his doctrines 

 of the Mechanism of the Human Mind, and of the Association 

 of Ideas, are but an enlargement of Locke's, or rather a de- 

 duction from it. His Doctrine of Vibrations is considered more 

 his own J ; and though Hartley's Ot'servatut/is has iiol been made 

 a Lecture-book in our colleges, it has been much read in the 

 Ihiiversity. Dr. Law, late bishop of Carlisle§, published in 

 1/77 a fine edition of all Locke's Works, together with a Life 

 and Preface; and the Moral Philosophy of Dr. Paley is fruit of 

 the same tree, though damaged in the gathering. 



" As Logic (and with it Metaphysics) had been so greatly 

 taught at Cambridge, prior to the revival of letters, it may be 

 proper to observe, that the Scholastics considered thought as 

 making no use of a bodily organ, and, indeeed, as having no 

 communication with the body. They conceived the soul to be 

 the plac(^ of ideas, ro%o; rcav ihcuv, and logic, like experimental 

 philosophy, as having instriLments corresponding to the third 

 operation of the mind, judgement, and with them comparing 

 together those ideas, and making inferences by the assistance of 

 Syllogisms. 



" The art therefore was supposed by Bacon and Locke to have 

 been exercised in the schools with too many subtleties and 

 fleeting uncertainties, deduced from Aristotle, who, making it 



loupe maximum movcmus, F.a enim de qua Dialectic! loqiiuntur, quae procedit 

 pur cnuinpiatioiiem simpliceili, puerile qiiiddam est, et prccario concludit, et 

 ptriculu ab iiistantia cuntradieturia cxponitur, et consueta tantum intnetur, nee 

 exitum reperit. Atqui opus est ad Scieiitias Iiidiictionis forma tali, qiiai expe- 

 rieiitiam sol vat, et separet, et per exclusiones ac reject iones debitas necessarid 

 concludat. Quod si judicium illud vulgatum Dialectorum tam operosum fuerit, 

 ettanta ingenia exercueritj quanto mapis laboraiidum est in Imc altera, qu"d non 

 tantum ex Mentis penetralibus, sed etiam ex Naturte visceribus extrahetiir ? 

 Bacon, accordingly, gives up Syllogism. 



• Anti-Scepticism, or Notes upon each Chapter of Locke's F.ssay, cnncerning 

 Human Understanding, in four Books. By Henry Lee, B. D., formerly Fell, of 

 Eiiunanuel College. 1702. 



+ Observation!, on Man. Mr. Hartley was of Jesus College. 



\ So far only a* the Kngli.-ii school goes. It was taijght by the French philo- 

 sophers. See Systeme de la Nature, par M. Mirabaud, part. prem. chap. 8, 9. 

 " Cependant, si nous vouluns nous en faire une idee precise, nous trouverons que 

 sentir est cette fafon particuliere d'etre remue, propre a certains organes des corps 

 animes, occasionuees par la presence d'un objet matiriel quiagit sur ses organes, 

 do.it les mouveniens ou les ^branlemens se transniettent au cerveau. — Dans 

 I'homme, les nerfs viennent se reunir & se perdrc dans le cerveau." — In my Pob- 

 ■rics, however, I have stated an objection to the doctrine of Vibhations. 



5 He was JVIasler of I'tter House. 



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