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 . DAVID HARTLEY (ArTER SlIACKLEWELL). {From his Observations on Man, ISIO.) • 1784] PHILOSOPHY AND SCIENCE. 327 and of Hartley in psychology. Every mans own satisfaction he holds to be the nltiniato end for the man himself Throughthe Avill of God, this end is connected with the general good to which all the rules of morality have reference. The possibilityof disinterested action is explained by the principle o
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 . DAVID HARTLEY (ArTER SlIACKLEWELL). {From his Observations on Man, ISIO.) • 1784] PHILOSOPHY AND SCIENCE. 327 and of Hartley in psychology. Every mans own satisfaction he holds to be the nltiniato end for the man himself Throughthe Avill of God, this end is connected with the general good to which all the rules of morality have reference. The possibilityof disinterested action is explained by the principle of asso-ciation. Paley (whose sjstem will be dealt with in the nextchapter), in his later elaboration of theological utilitarianism,expresses his obligations to EICHARD PRICE, BY BEXJAillX WEST.{By permission of tlie Royal Society.) Richard Price (1723-91) carries forward the intellcctualist Pricestradition in morals. Of the earlier English moralists, he mostresembles Cudworth. He was an intimate friend of Priestleybut in a correspondence between them, published in 1778, Priceappears as the champion of free-will and of the unity andimmateriality of the human soul. Among his friends was Science. 328 . OF XE]V DEPAETURES. [1742 Franklin, to wlioni lie addressed some observations on statisticalquestions published in the Fhilo.^ophical Transactions, Appeal to the People on the Subject of the NationalDebt (1771) is supposed to have influenced Pitt in re-estab-lishing the sinking fund created by AValpole in 1716 andabolished in 1733 (p. 171). In his ethical treatise entitledReview of the Principal Questions in Morals (1757) hemaintains against Hutcheson that ideas of right and wrong areperceived by the reason, or understanding, and
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