Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . sign of the modern reaction Avithin the Churchfrom apology to confidence, from a defence of its institutionsas not absolutely bad to a proclaiming of their superiorityover all independent forms of Christianitv. andScience. Humes sceptical conclusions were not long in stirring upreaction against the Cartesian and Lockian principles thathad led to them. The chief exponent of this r
Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . sign of the modern reaction Avithin the Churchfrom apology to confidence, from a defence of its institutionsas not absolutely bad to a proclaiming of their superiorityover all independent forms of Christianitv. andScience. Humes sceptical conclusions were not long in stirring upreaction against the Cartesian and Lockian principles thathad led to them. The chief exponent of this reaction wasThomas Reid (1710-96), the founder of what is known as the 1 After a lively flirtation with the Russian Church in 1720-22. like that ofArchbishop Wake with the Galileans in 1618. PHILOSOPHY AND SCIENCE. 561 1802] TheScottish Scottish school of philosophy. Reids reply to Hume, the Inquiry into the Human Mind on the Principles of Common school!^Sense, appeared in 1764; his Essays on the Intellectual of Man, in 1785; Essays on the Active Powers ofMan, 1788. By the French spiritualist school of Cousin andJouifroy, Reids appeal to common sense was taken up as the. riuito: Walker <{? AVU^LIAil PALKY, , BY (OR AFTER) GEORGE ROMXEY. (Satiotial Portrait GalUnj.) watchword of their own reaction against the development inFrance of Lockes principles. Credit is noAV usually allowed toReid for seeing the true historical genesis of Berkeleys idealismand of Humes scepticism. His own philosophical doctrine hasbeen called by disciples natural realism. He holds that inperception we have direct knowledge of objects. Sensationsserve only as signs to perception. The nund originally possessescertain judgments, of which we become conscious by is these that Reid calls principles of connnon sense. Theirexistence is to be established by internal observation; hence the234 562 REVOLUTION AND RE ACTION. PaleysEthics. BenthamsEthics. [1784 importance o
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