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Innocent III, Bishop of Rome (Pope)
227

inoculation, smallpox
213

intelligence, artificial
16
–17

Iraenus
36

James II, King of England
113

James, Robert,
Medicinal Dictionary
(1743)
222

Jansenists
306

Jefferson, Thomas
233

Jenner, Edward
234

Jenyns, Soame
173

Free Inquiry into the Nature and Origin of Evil
(1757)
176

Johnson, Elizabeth (‘Tetty’)
172
,
176
,
403

Johnson, Esther (Swift’s ‘Stella’)
149

Johnson, Michael
178

Johnson, Nathaniel
178

Johnson, Samuel
21
,
23
,
101
,
104
,
234

afterlife/death, fear of
183
–7,
206

appearance
173
,
174
,
175
,
380

beliefs
187

childhood & family life
178
–9

descriptions of
173
–5,
177
–8,
178

Dictionary of the English Language
(1755)
167
,
168
–9,
169
,
177
,
180

free will & determinism
418

Freud anticipated
178

Gentleman’s Magazine
180

on happiness
170
–71

health
167
,
172
,
177
,
188
–9

human nature
433

on Hume
185

idleness/sloth
179
–81,
183
,
187
–8,
282

Idler
(1758)
167
,
173
,
177
,
179
–80

Life of Mr Richard Savage, The
(1744)
176

Lives of the English Poets
(1779–81)
168
,
175

London
(1738)
167

man/mankind
169
–72,
176
,
177

melancholy & madness
172
–6,
177
,
178
,
180
,
181
–3;
see also
health mind, nature of
347

on the soul
168
–9

on
Tristram Shandy
304

pessimism
176

Rambler
(1750)
167
,
173
,
179
–80,
183
,
184

Rasselas
(1759)
167
,
170
–72,
173
,
179
,
181
–2

religious torment
183
–6,
188
,
189

self, sense of
195

Shakespeare, edition of (1765)
168
,
180

Vanity of Human Wishes, The
(1749)
167
,
173

wife, death of
172
,
176
,
181

Jopson’s Coventry Mercury
214

Judaism
19
,
361

Julian of Norwich
273

Kames, Lord, Henry Home
107

on women
259
,
260
–61,
267
,
268

psychology
313

Sketches of the History of Man
(1774)
248
,
259

Kay, Richard
229

Keats, John
11
,
460

Keir, James
375

Kempe, Margery
273

Ken, Thomas
212

Kinglake, Alexander William
416

Kingsborough, Lady
267

Kingsley, Charles
229
–30

Kneller, Godfrey
240

Knowles, Mrs
186

La Mettrie, Julien Offroy de,
L’Homme machine
(1749)
350

Laing, R. D.
372

Lamarck, Jean Baptiste de Monet/Lamarckism
382
,
384

Lambton, John George, Lord,
415

Langton, Bennett
184

latitudinarianism/Latitudinarians
83
,
131

Lavater, Johann Caspar
255
–6

Law, William
184
,
272
,
369

Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life, A
(1728)
183

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm
176

Lely, Peter
240

Lennox, Charlotte,
Female Quixote, The
(1752)
282

Lettsom, John Coakley, on addiction
400

Levellers
82

Licensing Act
22
,
113

Lichfield Botanic Society
377

life, nature of
54
–5

literacy, spread
22

Locke, John
13
,
51
,
62
,
80
,
85
,
108
–9,
124
,
231
,
235
,
241

Christianity
362

critics
8
,
95
–6,
132
,
134
–5,
138
,
370
,
410

demonized
435

education, on
116
,
265
–6,
393
,
422

eschatology
96

Essay concerning Human Understanding
(1690)
7
,
96
,
126
,
131
,
182
,
219
,
257
,
311

God, idea of
358

ideas, popularization of
125
–7,
169

influence
283
,
314
,
318
–19,
347
,
405

Journals
(1677)
311

materialism
472

Mr Locke’s Reply to… Bp of Worcester
(1699)
95

property, right to
225

psychology
313

Resurrection et quae sequuntur
(1707)
96

satirized
347

and Shaftesbury
130
,
133

Some Thoughts Concerning Education
(1693)
131
,
198
,
231
,
262
–3

Two Treatises of Government
(1690)
131

longevism/prolongevism
118
,
153
,
428

Louis XIV, King of France
156
–7

Loves of the Plants, The
(1798)
418

Lowth, Robert,
Lectures on the Sacred Poetry of the Hebrews
(1787)
218
–19

Lucian,
Dialogues of the Dead
278

Lucretia
376

Lucretius
51
,
84
,
139

Lunar Society (Birmingham)
375
–6,
413

Luther, Martin/Lutheranism
21
,
82
,
156
,
361

Macaulay, Catharine
263
,
264

Macheath, Captain
(Beggar’s Opera, The)
192
,
281

Mackenzie, Henry,
Man of Feeling, The
(1771)
284

Macleod, Lady
177

madness & the insane

care & treatment
305
–6,
307
,
313
–14,
315
–16,
317
–18

medicalized
306

models of
305
–6,
307
–10,
311
–13,
318
–19

observation of
313

psychopathologized
306
,
307

Malpighi, Marcello
52

Malthus, Daniel
429

Malthus, Thomas Robert

Essay on the Principle of Population
(1798)
429
–30

influences
429
–30

parodied
466

sexual materialism
430
–31

man/human beings
22

Christian
18
,
62
–3,
182
,
470

Classical concept
29
,
49

distinctions among
463
–4

drives & passions
398
–9,
424
–6

education
see
perfectibility/progress equality among
424
–5,
431

Hobbesian
130
,
146
–7

humanist concept
4
,
23
,
83

Johnson on
169
–72

Mandeville on
142
–4

manners & morals
142
–4

models
63
,
66

nature of
137
–8,
169
–72,
177
,
398
,
423
,
464

nebulous
164

necessity, doctrine of
423
–4

optimism about
386
–7

perfectibility/progress
130
–31,
370
,
386
–7,
393
–6,
418
,
420
,
421
–2,
423
,
471

pessimism about
386
,
387
,
389

Promethean
390

psychological emphasis
472

rationality/ reason
151
,
153
–5,
250
–51

secular model
367
–8

self-made
8

self-presentation
116
–17

sociable/gregarious
116
–17,
129
,
138
,
142
–4,
203
,
397

social construct
16

Swift on
151
,
154
–5

uniqueness
194
–5

utilitarianism
424

Mandeville, Bernard de
10
,
130
,
140
,
177
,
421

body/mind relationship
141
–2

Fable of the Bees, The
(1714)
142
–4,
254
–5,
261

libido
428

Modest Defence of the Public Stews, A
(1724)
145
,
146

Virgin Unmask’d, The
(1709)
144
–6

on women
261

Manichees/Manicheanism
36
,
37

manners & morals
254
–5,
402
,
472

pleasure/pain psychology
349

print culture and
281
–3

see also
Addison & Steele

Marcus Aurelius
131
,
138

Marlowe, Christopher, Dr Faustus
6

Martineau, Harriet
406

Marvell, Andrew

‘Dialogue between the Soul and the Body’
39
–41

Marx, Karl
8

master-narrative
388

masturbation
233
–4,
242

dangers
270
–71

materialism
24
,
83
,
84
–5,
90
,
98

challenged
88
,
94

mechanistic
434

Priestley on
371
,
376
,
378
,
419
,
453
,
472

scientific
158
–9

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