A babe who had never known greater cruelty than that of being snatched away by its mother for half a moment from the breast in order to be kissed.
To attempt to subordinate the idea of time to that of likeness.
Every man asks how? This power to instruct is the true substratum of philosophy.
Godwin's philosophy is contained in these words: Rationem defectus esse defectum rationis.—Hobbes.
Hartley just able to speak a few words, making a fire-place of stones, with stones for fire—four stones for the fire-place, two for the fire—seems to illustrate a theory of language, the use of arbitrary symbols in imagination. Hartley walked remarkably soon and, therefore, learnt to talk remarkably late.