...Reid's call for a "distinct and full history of all that hath passed in the mind of a child from the beginning of life and sensation till it grows up to the use of reason"; second, they align their work with the principles of Bacon. In the spirit of Baconian inquiry, they...

...the mind of a child from the beginning of life and fenfation, tillit grows up to the ufe of reafon ; how its infant faculties began to work, and how they...and ripened all the -various notions, opinions, and fentiments, which we find in ourfelves when we come to be capable of reflection ; this would be a treafure...

...the beginning of life and íénfat¡on,4ill it grows up to the ufe of reaГод i Ion -, howr it« infant faculties began to work, and how they brought...and ripened all the various notions, opinions, and fentiments, which we find in ourlèlves when we come to be capable of refieiYion ; this would be a...

...we could obtain a distinct and full history of all that hath passed in the mind of a child from the beginning of life and sensation, till it grows up to the use of reason, . . . . this would probably give more light into the human faculties than all the systems of philosophers...

...we could obtain a distinct and full history of all that hath passed in the mind of a child from the beginning of life and sensation, till it grows up to the use of reason, . . . . this would probably give more Hghf into the human faculties than all the systems of philosophers...