[40] Doddridge’s “Life and Correspondence,” vol. iv. p. 520.
[41] “Without question we must affirm that Body is the necessary means of bringing Mind into relationship with space and extension, and so of giving it Place, very plainly a disembodied spirit, or we ought rather to say, an unembodied spirit, or sheer mind, is nowhere.”—Isaac Taylor’s “Physical Theory of Another Life,” chap. ii.
[42] See Preface to the second vol. of “World to Come,” Octavo edition.
[43] 1 Cor. i. 26.
[44] So says Mr. Carlyle, in one of the most interesting little documents in connection with the life of Watts ever published, the little pamphlet to which we have already referred.
[45] Montgomery on the Cholera Mount of Sheffield.
[46] “Memorials, Historical, Descriptive, Poetical and Pictorial, Commemorative of the Inauguration of the Statue to Dr. Isaac Watts, in the Western Park, Southampton, by the Earl of Shaftesbury, July 17th, 1861.” See also “The Proceedings connected with the Inauguration of the Memorial Statue to Dr. Isaac Watts, at Southampton, July 17th, 1861.”
[47] “There is also perhaps more method and clearness in the logic of Watts than in that of Arnauld. The good English sense—the business faculty—that of practical life, repeats itself here in the highest degree; whilst the speculative mind of a tolerably scholarly theologian is yet more full in the art of thinking. Now Watts is complete without being extravagant; he has touched very adequately all that is necessary, and he always stops at the very precise point where depth might have injured transparency.”
[48] “The Athenian Oracle, being an entire collection of all the valuable Questions and Answers in the old Athenian Mercurys, intermixed with many cases in Divinity, History, Philosophy, Mathematics, Love, and Poetry, and never before Published,” etc. 4 vols. Printed for Andrew Bell, at the Cross Keys.
“Athenian Sport; or, Two Thousand Paradoxes Merrily Argued, by a Member of the Athenian Society.”