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Gilman, James
409

Glanvill, Joseph
87
–9,
91
,
92
,
124
,
187

A Blow at Modern Sadducism
(1688)
89

Philosophia Pia
(1671)
88

Plus Ultra
(1668)
87
–8

Saducisimus Triumphatis
(1681)
88

soul
168
,
169

Vanity of Dogmatizing, The
(1661)
87

Glorious Revolution (1688)
21
,
113
,
130

gluttony
see
eating, excessive

Gnostics
36

Godwin, Mary
420

Godwin, William
8
,
285
,
405
,
419
,
424

anarchism
421

atheism
420
–21

body/mind relationship
424
,
425
–6,
426
,
427
–8,
429
,
431

Caleb Williams
(1794)
256
,
420
,
424

challenged
430

determinism
398
,
423
–4

Enquirer, The
(1797)
420
,
424

Enquiry concerning Political Justice, An
(1793)
284
,
420
,
421
,
424

health regimen
426

human sexuality
428
–9,
430
–31

individualism
369
,
392
–3,
397
,
433

man, model
420
,
421
–2,
423

materialism
472

parodied/satirized
429
,
466

politicization
420

progress
431
,
471

reason, triumph of
388
,
389
,
473

religious views
423
,
432

social organization
421
–3

and Mary Wollstonecraft
420

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang

Faust
(1808–32)
11

Wilhelm Meister
(1796)
9

Goldsmith, Oliver
189

gout
239

Graham, James
234

Grand Trunk Canal
377

Gray, Thomas,
Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard
(1751)
198
–9

Greece/Greek
see
Classical Greece

Gregory, John
262
,
266

Grub Street
22
,
113
,
175
,
420

Habeas Corpus
414

Hales, Stephen
349

Halford, Henry
223

Halifax, Viscount,
Advice to a Daughter
(1688)
262

Hallaran, William
313

Haller, Albrecht von
308

Hamlet
3
,
6
,
12
,
212
,
272

Harley, Lady Brilliana
233

Harley, Ned
233

Harrington, James
131

Hartley, David
279
,
349
–60,
350
–51

Conjecturae Quaedam
(1746)
349

death & afterlife
358
–9

determinism
398
,
423

domestic arrangements
348
–9

early years
348

emotions, theory of
352
–5

God, idea of
355
–8

identity/self
349
,
369
,
371

influence
283
,
284
,
360
,
370
,
405

influences
348
,
349
,
350
,
351

learning, theory of
350
,
351
–2,
352
–3,
355
,
383
,
426

materialism
359
–60,
419
,
472

motivation/voluntarism
425

neurophysiology
309
,
350
–51

parodied
466

personality formation
352
,
353

Progress of Happiness, The
349

psychology
313
,
351
–5

Harvey, William
45
,
55
,
56

De Motu Cordis
(1628)
52
,
228

Hays, Mary,
Emma Courtney
(1796)
283
–5

Hazlitt, William
11
,
251

Liber Amoris
(1823)
285
,
368

sexual materialism
431

Spirit of the Age, The
(1825)
470

health

care/regimens
229
,
230
–32,
234
–5,
402
,
426

movements
239

routines diarised
232
–3

heaven & hell
see
eschatology, afterlife

Heaven our Home
105

Heberden, William
317

Hegel/Hegelianism
8
,
11
,
13

Helena & Judith (Siamese twins)
164

Helmont, Joannes Baptista van
53
–4

Helvétius, Claude-Adrien
393
,
419

Henry, Philip
212
–13

Herder, Johann Gottfried
8

Hill, Christopher
82

Hippocratic medicine
46
–7,
50

Hobbes, Thomas
24
,
87
,
159

challenged
88
,
94
,
130
,
131
,
410

determinism
366

Devil quoting Scripture
470

Hobbesian man
116
,
127
,
131
,
142
,
146
–7,
177
,
272
,
285

concept challenged
137
,
138

Leviathan
(1651)
130
,
158

materialism
84
–5

religious views
306

see also
identity/self; soul

Hogarth, William
25
,
174
,
278
,
300
,
381

‘Four Stages of Cruelty’
224

Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry d’
419

Hölderlin, Johann Christian Friedrich
10

Holdsworth, Winch
96

homo rationis capax
151
,
153
–5

Hood, Thomas, ‘Mary’s Ghost: A Pathetic Ballad’
224
–6

Hooke, Robert
51
,
55
,
88
,
233

Horatius
281

hospital movement
214

Howard, Lady Lucy
232

hubris
30

Hugh of St Victor
227

Hume, David
10
,
127
,
203
–4,
221
–2

causality
398

challenged
410

ideas, association of
312

Johnson on
185

on suicide
225

Treatise of Human Nature
(1739)
370

Huygens, Christiaan
51

hypochondria
123
–4,
125

hysteria
401
–2

iatrochemistry
53
–4

iatrophysics
52
,
53

idealism
84
–5,
375
–6

identity/self
3
–4,
7
,
63
,
133
,
134
–5,
136
–7,
165
,
257
,
345

aesthetics of
246
–7

afterlife
21

annihilation/denial
4

appearance and
244

awareness/consciousness of
6
–7,
26
,
31
,
44
–5,
94
,
108
,
133
,
134
–5,
136
–7,
164

Cartesian
372

Christianity and
4
,
9
,
19
,
473

concept challenged
14
–15

confession and
8
–9

contingent
369

creation
11
–12,
159

development of
11

disguising
251
–4

elevation
108

Enlightenment
146
–7

erosion of
16

exposure
285

Hazlitt on
369
–70,
371

Hume on
304
,
369

immortality
207

imperfections
193

integrity
166

interest
142
–4

Locke on
94
,
102
,
136
,
137
,
162
,
164
,
165
,
166
,
253
,
304
,
369
,
370
,
371
,
372

mechanistic view
374
–5

models for
281
,
470

naturalization/secularization
17
–18,
464
,
469
,
471
,
473

nature of
133
,
134
–5

possession
255

presentation
129
,
250

Priestley on
369

psychologization
370
,
371

Reformation & Renaissance
5
–6

representation of
250
–51

repression, dangers of
146

Romantic
9
,
10
–11

science and
80
,
371

self-interest
142

sexuality and
12

shifting philosophies
225
–6,
469

signatures, doctrine of
249

social
469

Swift on
151

unconscious
11
–12

undermined
13
–14

uniformity
433

unity
361

Western mythology
12
–13

see also
individual/individualism

Iliad
29

Imlay, Gilbert
220
,
221
,
271

immateriality/materiality
80

imprinting, doctrine of
246

individual/individualism
13
,
15

American
9
,
10

autonomy
11

concept, emergence of
30

consciousness
4

enlightened
9
–10

foundation
6
–7

liberal
130

Protestant
6

Romantic
10

sovereignty
16
–17

subjective
12

see also
identity/self

industrialization
375
,
388
–92

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