...can be admitted), yet why select so minute, so weak, so bounded a principle as the reason and design of animals is found to be upon this planet? What peculiar...agitation of the brain which we call thought, that we must thus make it the model of the whole universe? Our partiality in our own favour does indeed present...

...admitted), yet why select so minute, 30 weak, so bounded a principle, as the reason of animals is hound to be upon this planet ? What peculiar privilege has...agitation of the brain, which we call thought, that ve must thus make it the model of the universe ? ' 3 There are, he afterwards says, four principles...

...enemies. Hume, the greatest philosopher of the age, will deny the possibility of philosophy, asking, "What peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain, which we call thought, that we must thus make it the model of the universe?"5 This archsceptic also represents, with Gibbon and Robertson,...

...select so minute, so weak, so bounded a principle as the reason and design of animals is found to bo upon this planet ? What peculiar privilege has this...agitation of the brain which we call thought, that we must thus make it the model of the whole universe ? Our partiality in our own favour does indeed present...

..."the springs and principles of the universe" and are totally inadequate to explain its principles. "What peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call thought, that we must thus make it the model of the whole universe?" Nature has an infinite number of springs and principles....

...Boston — uses the term "humanism" in a wide way, reminding one of David Hume's pungent utterance : "What peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain, which we call thought, that we must make it the model of the universe?" A man is not less a man, but more a man, more "human," when...

...why select so minute, so weak, so bounded a principle as the reason and design of animals [that are] found to be upon this planet. What peculiar privilege...agitation of the brain which we call "thought," that we must thus make it the model of the whole universe?15 This turns out to be a fallacious argument indeed,...

...to " transfer the determination of the thought to external objects" (7168; see £VII/ii.60n.) ; for "What peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought,' that we must thus make it the model of the whole universe?" (£>H. 19). Before truths regarding relations of...

...From observing the growth of a hair, can we learn any thing concerning the generation of a man? . . /What peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call thought, that we must thus make it the model of the whole universe? . . . Admirable conclusion! Stone, wood, brick,...

...animals' as 'the foundation of our judgment concerning the origin of the whole . . .?', asks Hume; '[w]hat peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call thought, that we must make it the model of the whole universe?' Yet the human intelligence does retrace gradually the...