A comparative view of the state and faculties of man with those of the animal world..
Gregory, John,1724-1773.
London: : Printed for J. Dodsley in Pall-Mall.,
M DCC LXV. [1765]
Anonymous. By John Gregory.
Variant: in some copies the full stop after "man" in the title has failed to print.
The Scottish physician John Gregory, was a member of the Aberdeen Philosophical Society. He considered human nature to be a uniform non-variant, whose principles and function can be discovered through experiment. The two principles of mind are reason and instinct. Gregory wrote that "The task of improving our nature, of improving man's estate, involves the proper development and exercise of the social principle and the other principle of instinct, with reason subordinate to instinct and serving as a corrective on it". The study of nature is then, according to Gregory, the best means of cultivating taste and religious understanding, the aim being to produce morally well-formed individuals.
ESTC
Psychology, Comparative
England London.