What then gives us so great a propension to ascribe an identity to these successive perceptions, and to suppose ourselves possest of an invariable and uninterrupted existence through the whole course of our lives?
In the last place this propension causes belief by means of the present impressions of the memory; since without the remembrance of former sensations, it is plain we never should have any belief of the continued existence of body.
The imagination is seduced into such an opinion only by means of the resemblance of certain perceptions; since we find they are only our resembling perceptions, which we have a propension to suppose the same.
The perplexity arising from this contradiction produces a propensionto unite these broken appearances by the fiction of a continued existence, which is the third part of that hypothesis I proposed to explain.
There is properly no simplicity in it at one time, nor identity in different; whatever natural propension we may have to imagine that simplicity and identity.
The appetite, being stirred up by the imaginative, effectually moves man to that which is proper and agreeable to his nature, just as when there is made a propension and inclination in the principal and reasonable part.
If we admit the impulse to society as natural to man, and his fitness for it, and his propension towards it, i.
Twould be rare Could you perswade me to't, I can find No such propension in my selfe; beware Least in this wildnes you ingage your heart To one cannot accept it.
Add to these what he calls a great propension to think so: this perhaps may be questioned.
This propension has drawn on him, tho' very unjustly, the censure of some grave men.
Main, that his propension to innocent raillery was so great, that it kept him company even after death.
King James of Scotland, who with but few regal qualities, yet certainly had a propension to literature, and was an encourager of learned men, took Mr. Alexander early into his favour.
His gaiety and propension to jesting did not forsake him in his last moments; when he laid his head upon the block, he bad the executioner stay till he had removed aside his beard, saying, "that that had never committed treason.
Now if the Mind be not thus easie, 'tis an infallible Sign that it is not in its natural State; Place the Mind in its right Posture, it will immediately discover its innate Propension to Beneficence.
It is now the very propension and natural inclination of our hearts, to stand upright in ourselves Faith bows a soul’s back to take on Christ’s righteousness, but presumption lifts up a soul upon its own bottom.
There is properly no simplicity in it at one time, nor identity in different, whatever natural propension we may have to imagine that simplicity and identity.
What then gives so great a propension to ascribe an identity to these successive perceptions, and to suppose ourselves possessed of an invariable and uninterrupted existence through the whole course of our lives?
Hence it is, that we have such a strongpropension to errors and mistakes: Whether, 1.
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