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Joseph Priestley was an English philosopher, chemist, and deist. He is known for his contributions to the study of gases, particularly for his discovery of oxygen. Priestley was an advocate of empiricism in philosophy and also made contributions to the field of education.

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“The mind of man can never be wholly barren. Through our whole lives we are subject to successive impressions; for, either new ideas are continually flowing in, or traces of the old ones are marked deeper. If, therefore, you be not acquiring good principles be assured that you are acquiring bad ones; if you be not forming virtuous habits you are, how insensibly soever to yourselves, forming vicious ones.”

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Book:Views of Christian truth, piety, and morality: selected from the writings of Dr. Priestley : with a memoir of his life

Source: Views of Christian truth, piety, and morality: selected from the writings of Dr. Priestley : with a memoir of his life

“We find upon all occasions, the early Christian writers speak of the Father as superior to the Son, and in general they give him the title of God , as distinguished from the Son; and sometimes they expressly call him, exclusively of the Son, the only true God ; a phraseology which does not at all accord with the idea of the perfect equality of all the persons in the Trinity. But it might well be expected, that the advances to the present doctrine of the Trinity should be gradual and slow. It was, indeed, some centuries before it was completely formed.”

Source: A History of the Corruptions of Christianity

“In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others of which we could have no idea before, so that we cannot solve one doubt without creating several new ones.”

Ideas Knowledge Doubt Failing Creating Discovery Solve No Idea Imperfection Imperfect Completing

Book:The theological and miscellaneous works of Joseph Priestley

Source: The theological and miscellaneous works of Joseph Priestley

“Will is nothing more than a particular case of the general doctrine of association of ideas, and therefore a perfectly mechanical thing.”

Ideas Cases Particular Doctrine Association

Book:The Doctrine of Philofophical Neceffity Illustrated: Being an Appendix to the Difquifitions Relating to Matter and Spirit. To which is Added an Anfwer to the Letters on Materialism, and on Hartley's Theory of the Mind [by Joseph Perington].

Source: The Doctrine of Philofophical Neceffity Illustrated: Being an Appendix to the Difquifitions Relating to Matter and Spirit. To which is Added an Anfwer to the Letters on Materialism, and on Hartley's Theory of the Mind [by Joseph Perington].