The Muse is issued. John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding Locke and the external agitation of the animal spirtis. Henry Mackenzie, Untitled Article in The Lounger, No. 20 Attacks the sentimental novel on moral grounds. Julien Offray de La Mettrie, Man A Machine .
Man is a complicated machine.
Samuel Richardson, Clarissa Lovelace describes Clarissa. The Confessions Rousseau becomes intoxicated with virtue. The sentimental writing style in love letters. Tobias Smollett, Travels Through France and Italy Smollet describes an illness and its cure. Thomas Willis, Two Discourse concerning The Soul of Brutes, Which is that of the Vital and Sensitive of Man Willis on melancholy.