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All the objects of human knowledge may be divided into two kinds: those of body and those of mind. The arts and sciences may likewise be divided into two great branches, concerning things material & immaterial. Theology, pneumatology, logic, &c. derive their first principles from the philosophy of the mind; they are ad[d]ress’d to it, and are intended to produce some effect upon it. Astronomy, medicine, chymistry, physics, botany, &c, and all the arts of human life derive their first principles from the philosophy of body and are intended to produce some effect upon it.
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The remarks in parenthesis were written by Reid on a separate sheet with a sign showing where, im the body of the text, they were to be inserted. The works referred to are William Hogarth’s The Analysis of Beauty (1753)
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Reid, D. (1973). Lectures on the Fine Arts. In: Thomas Reid’s Lectures on the Fine Arts. Archives Internationales D’Histoire des Idees / International Archives of the History of Ideas, vol 7. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2445-7_2
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