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Page 13 - Though it be too obvious to escape observation that different ideas are connected together, I do not find that any philosopher has attempted to enumerate or class all the principles of association ; a subject, however, that seems worthy of curiosity.
Page 12 - Besides this, there is another connection of ideas wholly owing to chance or custom : ideas, that in themselves are not all of kin, come .to be so united in some men's minds, that it is very hard to separate them ; they always keep in company, and the one no sooner at any time conies into the understanding, but its associate appears with it ; and if they are more than two, which are thus united, the whole gang, always inseparable, show themselves together.
Page 13 - ... sa douleur, ne faisaient que lui rappeler le triste souvenir d'Ulysse, qu'elle y avait vu tant de fois auprès d'elle. Souvent elle demeurait immobile sur le rivage de la mer, qu'elle arrosait de ses larmes, et elle était sans cesse tournée vers le côté où le vaisseau d'Ulysse, fendant les ondes, avait disparu à ses yeux.
Page 13 - ... and the idea of pain and terror, as the means of acquiring it. That those who have been subject to tyranny, are almost always desirous of being tyrants in their turn; that is to say, that a strong association has been formed in their minds, between the ideas of pleasure and dignity, on the one hand, and those of the exercise of tyranny, on the other, is a matter of old and invariable observation.
Page 13 - ... pains of other men. When a command over the wills of other men is pursued by the instrumentality of pain, it leads to all the several degrees of vexation, injustice, cruelty, oppression, and tyranny. It is, in truth, the grand source of all wickedness, of all the evil which man brings upon man. When the education is so deplorably bad as to allow an association to be formed in the mind of the child between the grand object of desire, the command over the wills of other men...
Page 12 - Some of our ideas have a natural correspondence and connexion one with another : it is the office and excellency of our reason to trace these, and hold them together in that union and correspondence which is founded in their peculiar beings.
Page 12 - I have the happiness to see you, we will consider it together, and you shall dispose of it. I think I shall make some other additions to be put into your Latin translation, and particularly concerning the " connexion of ideas," which has not, that I know, been hitherto considered, and has, I guess, a greater influence upon our minds than is usually taken notice of.
Page 13 - It is, in truth, the grand source of all wickedness, of all the evil which man brings upon man. When the education is so deplorably bad as to allow an association to be formed in the mind of the child between the grand object of desire, the command over the wills of other men, and the fears and pains of other men, as the means ; the foundation is laid of the bad character — the bad son, the bad brother, the bad husband, the bad father, the bad neighbour, the bad magistrate, the bad citizen —...
Page 13 - ... which it desires. There is not one child in fifty, who has not learned to make its cries and wailings an instrument of absolute tyranny. When the evil grows to excess, the vulgar say the child is spoiled. Not only is the child allowed to exert an influence over the wills of others, by means of their pains; it finds, that frequently, sometimes most frequently, its own will is needlessly...
Page 13 - ... an instrument of absolute tyranny. When the evil grows to excess, the vulgar say the child is spoiled. Not only is the child allowed to exert an influence over the wills of others by means of their pains, it finds, that frequently, sometimes most frequently, its own will is needlessly and unduly commanded by the same means, pain, and the fear of pain: All these sensations concur in establishing a firm association between the idea of the grand object of desire, command over the acts of other men,...