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David Hartley
1. Reception of the Observations on Man
In the 18th and 19th centuries, Hartley’s Observations was valued very highly by people within the realm of religious dissent, scientific progress, and social reform. Writing in 1774, Joseph Priestley, a leading Unitarian and the foremost scientist in Britain, wrote that the Observations “contains a new and most extensive science” and promised that “the study of it … will be like entering upon a new world.” He added: “I think myself more indebted to this one treatise, than to all the books I ever read beside; the scriptures excepted” (1774, xix).
Priestley and his fellow Unitarians gave the Observations a central place in the curriculum in the dissenting academies. (For admission to Oxford and Cambridge Universities, a student had to subscribe to the doctrines of the Church of England—a requirement which excluded Unitarians, who did not accept that Jesus is God;
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Hartley, David
(b. Armley, Yorkshire, England, ca. 30 August 1705; d. Bath, England, 28 August 1757)
psychology.
Hartley was born into the family of a poor Anglican country clergyman in Yorkshire. His mother, Evereld Wadsworth, died in the year David was born. His father, also called David, then married Sarah Wilkinson in 1707, by whom he had four children, but he too died while David was still a boy. After being brought up “by one Mrs. Brooksbank,” Hartley attended Bradford Grammar School and in 1722 entered Jesus College, Cambridge. He studied classics, mathematics, and divinity and received his B.A. in 1726 and his M.A. in 1729. He was a fellow of Jesus from 1727 until he took leave in 1730. When he married a year later, his fellowship was terminated in accordance with the college statutes.
Although devoutly religious, Hartley had scruples against signing the articles and went into medicin instead of taking orders. He never obtained a medical grad but went to study
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- Hartley, David, 1705-1757: An account of the contribution for making Mrs. Stephens's medicines public; with some reasons for it, and answers to the most remarkable objections made against it: ([London?,: , 1738]) (HTML at ECCO TCP)
- Hartley, David, 1705-1757: De l'homme, de ses facultés physiques et intellectuelles, de ses devoirs, et de ses espérances (Chez Ducauroy [etc.], 1802), also by Roch Ambroise Sicard (page images at HathiTrust)
- Hartley, David, 1705-1757: De lithontriptico a Joanna Stephens nuper invento dissertatio epistolaris / [David Hartley] (Joannes Christ., 1741), also by Real Colegio de Cirugía de San Carlos (Madrid) (page images at HathiTrust)
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