Footnotes
[126] Cowper's Task, Book V. v. 810–814.
[127] Cowpers Task, Book V. v. 686–7.
[128] Recherche de la Verité, Liv. III. c. vi.
[129] Recherche de la Verité, Liv. III. c. vi.
[130] Pleasures of Imagination, Book I. v. 59–78.
[LECTURE XXXI.]
HISTORY OF OPINIONS REGARDING PERCEPTION, CONCLUDED—ON THE EXTERNAL AFFECTIONS COMBINED WITH DESIRE, OR ON ATTENTION.
In my last Lecture, Gentlemen, I gave you a slight sketch of some theories,—or, to speak more accurately, of some hypothetical conjectures, which have been formed with respect to perception,—pointing out to you, at the same time, the two supposed difficulties which appear to me to have led to them, in false views of the real objects of perception, and of the nature of causation; the difficulty of accounting, with these false views, for the supposed perception of objects at a distance, and for the agency of matter on a substance, so little capable as mind, of being linked with it, by any common bond of connexion.