Footnotes:
[1] Rom. i. 14, 15.
[2] Oration pro Milne.
[3] Vol. III. p. [216], [217].
[4] Milton seems to have been of this opinion. Hence, after ascribing repentance to Satan, he makes him declare,
“Farewell remorse: all good to me is lost,
Evil, be thou my good.”——
Paradise Lost, Book IV.
[5] I have selected this case from many others, which have come under my notice, in which the moral faculty appeared to be impaired by diseases, particularly by the typhus of Dr. Cullen, and by those species of palsy which affect the brain.
[6] Xenophon makes Cyrus declare, in his last moments, “That the soul of man, at the hour of death, appears most divine, and then foresees something of future events.”
[7] Essay concerning the Human Understanding, book I. chap. 3.
[8] Mr. Locke.