The Works Of James Harris Esq Volume 3 PDF Download

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1803 edition. Excerpt: ... . CHAP." XVIII. Conclufion -- Utilities deducible from the Theory of theft Arrangements--Recapitulation. Chap. A N D thus having finished the DocXVIII. JTjL. trine of thefePhilosophical ArRangements, or, in other words, of CaTegories, Predicaments, CompreHensive or Universal Genera, (for we have called them indifferently by every one of thefe names) together with fuch Speculations both previous and fubfequent (a), as were either requifite to explain the Subject, or elfe naturally arofe out of itj we imagine the Utilities of this knowlege will be obvious to every one, who has ftudied it with impar (a) See before, p. 35, 36, 360, 361, and below, p. 464. tiality, tiality, and has aimed to know, what it Chap. really is. XVIII, ', * In the firft place, as we have ufually begun the confideration of each ArRangement from Speculations refpeiling Body, and have thence made a Tranfition to others refpe&ing Mind; we may hence mark the Conneftim between thefe TWO GREAT PRINCIPLES, which ftand related to each other, as the SubJect and its Efficient Cause, and in virtue of that Relation may be faid to run thro all things ( b). Again, our Mind, by this orderly and comprehenjive Theory, becoming furnimed, like a good Library, with proper Cells or Apartments, we know where to place our Ideas both of Being and it's Attributes, and where to look for them . again, when we have occasion to call (b) See before, p. 34. G g 3 them Chap, them forth. Without fome ArrangeXVIII. MENT of this fort, the Mind is fo far from increafing in Knowlege by the Acquifition of new Ideas, that, while it increafes the Number of thefe, it does but increafe it's own Perplexity. It is no longer a Library well regulated, but a Library -crowded and confuied, JLt...