The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1805-06-21
head. ard in sen.ralwi ,r,ains r,iNahe., no. er-

head. ard in general with ,r.fing n,Faks, no. ex-
c-ediug eight pages.
Feb. 10. To-day we could not praei,e much on
| account Of company: ni we did little. /. They
very ably diitinguish.d various gold coins namely
Prulan, Saxcr, Brunfwick, and French louiidor.
I2. The Cd experiment al aft Sunday with the dol
lars repeated H told the number ievera times
as far as fifteen, and fcareely ever miGaken.
often laid them his hand by guefs withou, know
ing the number myfeif. Thus found, that he had
not Ion the imPreiiions Of laa Sunday. Mr. l.. was
prefsns ard not little aifoniihed. s. The eyer
CITES FIVE and fix of ah Sunday were repeated, frn
giving the ftandard again aireih. H told the page
70 accurately, that was furprzed; and one OF his
ichooi fellows, who in obferved, that an in
different fpcGator might fufpecf feme deception In
dead at fri doubtful myfef, and thought he
might fee through the handkerchief: accordingly,
| though conGder him as one of the moi iuyenuous
youths in all Denmark, tied another handkerchief
over it /; but this made difference. AT different
times he told the pages, 10, 81, 60, IS, SO, CS,
lO4, li6, So 81, 76, So, exactly, and pretty rea-
dily In his other numbers nire times he mifook by
hrgle leaf nine times by two leaves five times by
four or five, and only twice by nine ten.
M Lite eultisaion Of fbr js prOdasaive Of any be-
neEt? S'e. Sc.
| III. Mode ofeuitiv ,fing TIE )snEsy.
The firft Rep to the excitement of an idea is an
impreihon made upon fome of the organs of fcnfe.
This mprefiion may be perceived or il MAY I.oi ..
perceived; and, Is it be perceived, the perception
may be complete, or incomplete, or erroneous Thus
our attention is called to the truth or fafehood o.
the perception, its completeness or inconpleepels
and the lumber of the fenfe
l. Errours of the fenfes arife from various lources
a. From Judging by mediate idea of the obeta. Inn
prehions cauled by external objects either
through immediate CONTACT as in the fenfa,ion of feel
ing. fn'eh, and tate; or through mediate CONTACT,
as in thole Of fight, by of the rays of light or
OF hearing by of vibrations of the air If our
in place void OF air, it could hear nothing:
if our eye be in place void of light it can fee no.
| thing and the other feufes will perceive nothing
unlefs fome fu5Rance come into contact with them
Thus. then. we have immediate perceptions from, the
fenfes, only when ome obiea touches the nerves of
feeling, taae or fmel, rays OF light enter the eve,
or vibrations of the air reach the drum of the ear &
the mind perceives and confders the in,preaon Bu,
when from the in,prefiinn made GroH siie effe we
infer an mprefion before made upon another, it is
not mere fentivc idea, but parakes of the nature
OF an abfrad idea, and this idea call ne5iate For
inftance, man lifts lump of lead weighing hun
dred and twelve pounds, and the fenfe of feeling
gives him an immediate idea of hundred weight but
II he afterwards fees MATS of lead of the fame hape
and Gze, and fay it is hundred weight he has not
an immediate idea of its weight, but mediate i
dea inferred from previous perception Or my
dog lies by my ide, fee him, hroke him and have
an immediate idea of him. He runs OUT ! hear him
bark, judge it my dog, and the idea of him enters
my mind but this idea is only mediate for have no
immediate idea but that of barking Here then an i'm
porant 1ueition arifes in what cafes fenfes
turnhh us with immediate, in what only with med-
ate ideas The nature of the fenfes theelves is not
iuhcient to afford satisfactory anfwer to this, with
out conlderng at the fame time the obieas by which
they are affe2ed. The general qualities, by means
OF which bodies act upon our fenfes the date, by
which our fenies ditnguh bodies, are figure, mag
nude, gravity, colour, hardnefs or foftnefs odour
favour, and motion in its mott extenive fgnifca,:on
including consequently every fpeces of action. On
comparing thefe with the nature of our fenfes, we
inifantly perceive that they cannot all convey
immediate ideas to every fenfe, but only in the
following order.
Immediate ideas Of
Figure can be impaired by the fight. and touch
Magnifade Fight, and touch.
Gravity touch
| Colour fuht
Hardness or foftnes - touch.
Odour, 90. fmel.
| Favour taf}e
Motion hearing, fight, and touch
The following appear on clofe confederation to be
the fcources OF our mediate ideas.
Mediate ideas of
Figure can be impaired by the HEARING.
Magnitude hearing.
Gravity fight and hearing.
Hardness or ioftnefs fight, and hearing.
Colour touch
Odonr fight.
Favour fight.
Motion incl, and hearing.
immediate ideas founded on the inyariable f.
deity of the organs Of enfe mediate ideas on con-
cuiions formed from antecedent mprefons and ideas
If part of thefe imprefons in time be ehaced, our
Judgment, and the idea ariing from will be erro-
neous. For example, If the imprefion of the masn-
tude of hundred weight ofead be ever 70 little ef-
faced we fhall afterwards imagine larger or faller
lump TO be of that weight. We may afo be deceived
in another way five fee hallow MATS of lead of the
fame fze 70 placed that the vacuty is not vible to
US, we fhall judge. that it weighs a hundred and
twelve pounds. Hence mediate ideas are far
more liable to errour than immediate and from
the preceding rabies it is evident that the hearing is
moa expoied to this deception.
b. From the 5eye Of a7on of the fenie and its organ
being TOO eefegfve.
immediate ideas mediate deas; in all
| The fight has 8
hearing / 6
| touch s O
| fmell 2
| tzne