ALL MEN, COMMONLY WELL ORGANIZED, HAVE AN EQUAL AP-
TITUDE TO UNDERSTANDING,
CHAP. I. As all our ideas proceed from the senses; the under-
standing has been consequently regarded as the effect of
more or less sensibility in the organization, ............ ibid.
In order to prove the falsehood of this opinion, it is necessary that we
form a clear idea of the word Understanding, and consider it sepa-
rately from the mind.
CHAP. II. Of the difference between the mind and the soul, ... 97
CHAP. III. Of the objects on which the mind acts, .....
109
CHAP. IV. How the mind acts, ................
That all its operations may be reduced to the remarking of the resem
blances and differences between objects, and their fitness or unfitness
with respect to us.
That the judgment formed after a comparison of physical objects, is
a pure sensation; and that the case is the same in every judgment
relating to abstract ideas, &c.
CHAP. V. Of such judgments as result from the comparison of
ideas that are abstract, collective, &c. .................... 114
That this comparison supposes the exercises of attention and labour,
and consequently an interest in the object.
CHAP. VI. Where there is no interest, there is no comparison of
objects with each other, ........
........ 119
That, as interest derives its origin entirely from physical sensibility,
all human motives may be reduced to the principle of sensation.
CHAP. VII. Corporeal sensibility is the sole cause of our actions,
our thoughts, our passions, and our sociability, .... 124
CHAP. VIII. Of sociability, ........
CHAP. IX. A justification of the principles admitted in the
Treatise on the Mind, .....