0.5 - Compendium of Natural Philosophy - Appendix
A Compendium of Natural Philosophy - Appendix
Before I conclude, it seems highly necessary to enlarge a little on some particulars, which were before but slightly mentioned.
One of these is the HUMAN UNDERSTANDING, which was just mentioned in the Fourth Chapter of the First Part. On this important head I now intend to speak particularly; chiefly on the plan of the pious and learned Dr. Peter Brown, late Bishop of Cork, in Ireland.
It is needful, first, to trace out the bounds and extent of human understanding. These bounds being fixed, we are next to consider, how the mind dilates itself beyond them: how it supplies the want of direct ideas, by raising up secondary images in itself: insomuch that things, otherwise imperceptible, grow familiar and easy; and we meditate and discourse even on those beings, whereof we have not the least direct perception.
Chapter I Section I - Of The Ideas Of Sensation Section II - Of The Idea Of Spirits Section III - The Properties Of Ideas Of Sensations |
Chapter II Section I - Of The Pure Intellect And Its Operations Section II - Of The Different Kinds Of Knowledge And Evidence Section III - Of The Improvement Of Knowledge By Revelation |
General Reflections |