...that they are nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual...appearance ; pass, repass, glide away, and mingle iu an infinite variety of postures and situations. There is properly no simplicity in it at one time,...

...is there any single power of the soul, which remains unalterably the same, perhaps for one moment. The mind is a kind of theatre, where several perceptions...pass, repass, glide away, and mingle in an infinite varicty of postures and situations. There is properly no simplicity in it at one time, nor identity...

...The mind is a kind of theater, where several perceptions successively make their appearance, pass and repass, glide away and mingle in an infinite variety of postures and situations The comparison of the theater must not mislead us. They are the successive perceptions only that constitute...

...contradiction in terms. There can be ' properly no simplicity in it at one time, nor identity at different ; it is a kind of theatre where •» several perceptions successively make their appearance.' But this comparison must not mislead us. ' They are the successive perceptions only, that constitute...

...contradiction in terms. There can be ' properly no simplicity in it at one time, nor identity at different ; it is a kind of theatre where several perceptions successively make their appearance.' But this comparison must not mislead us. ' They are the successive perceptions only, that constitute...

...Nature in which he affects to prove that of self we have no " real idea ". " The mind," he says, " is a kind of theatre, where several perceptions successively...simplicity in it at one time, nor identity in different." And lest his readers should reply : But players at least imply a stage, as impressions — to use Locke's...

...is there any single power of the soul which remains unalterably the same, perhaps, for one moment. The mind is a kind of theatre, where several perceptions...make their appearance ; pass, repass, glide away, mingle in an infinite variety of postures and situations. There is properly no simplicity in it at...

...inconceivable rapidity, and are in perpetual flux and movement. The mind, continues the great sceptic, is a kind of theatre where several perceptions successively...infinite variety of postures and situations. There is no simplicity in it at one time, nor identity in different times, whatever natural propension we may...

...as independent of the brain as a telegraph operator is of his instrument." "The mind," says Hume, " is a kind of theatre, where several perceptions successively...There is properly no simplicity in it at one time, no identity in different times, whatever natural propensity we may have to imagine that simplicity...

...as independent of the brain as a telegraph operator is of his instrument." "The mind," says Hume, " is a kind of theatre, where several perceptions successively make their appearance, pass, rcpass, glide away, and mingle in an infinite variety of postures and situations. There is properly...