Chap. XI I.] Philosophij of the Human Mind, 2 1 3 



ence on the subject forms a very important pait 

 of the metapliysical liistory of the period in which 

 they lived. Some of the immaterialisls of the age, 

 such as Dr. Clarke, Dr. Price, and others, main- 

 tained tliat the mind has one property, viz. cjctai- 

 sio7i, in conmion with matter, and, consequently, 

 that it occupies space, and has a proper locality; 

 or, as the schoolmen express it, ubiety; while 

 otliers, such as Dr. Watts *, perhaps more con- 

 sistently and philosophically, supposed tliat mind 

 has no common property with matter ; that it is 

 inextended, does not occupy space, and has no 

 proper locality f . 



The celebrated dispute between the NomimiUstx 

 and RealistSy which perplexed the schoolmen for 

 so many ages J, and which all their acuteness was 

 not able to terminate, was carried on w^ith great 

 warmth, under different names, and with some 

 new modifications, through the whole of the last 

 century. And though stilT far from being con- 

 cluded, yet probably there was never so much 

 light thrown on the question in any preceding 

 period. Of those w^ho maintained the doctrine of 

 the Realists, it is believed that Mr. Harris, Dr. 



* Isaac Watts, D. D,, was born at Southampton, in l6"74. 

 The works of this great and good man are numerous and e^ 

 cellent. His Treatise on Logic, his Treutiac on the Improic 

 mcntofthe Mind] and his Philusuphical Essays, contain the chief 

 of what he wrote on metaphysical subjects. He entered on 

 the' work of the Gospel ministry about the year i;00j received 

 the degree of D.D. from the universities of Edinburgh and Aber- 

 deen, in 1/23 i and died in 1741. 



f See Currespundence between Price and Priestley; and aba 

 fllements ufthe Philosophy of Mind, by T. Belshani. 



+ See Additional notes — (00.) 



