By Geoffrey Sill
This new research examines the function of the passions within the upward push of the English novel. Geoffrey Sill examines scientific, spiritual, and literary efforts to anatomize the passions, paying specific awareness to the works of Dr. Alexander Monro of Edinburgh, Reverend John Lewis of Margate, and Daniel Defoe, novelist and ordinary historian of the passions. He indicates that the determine of the "physician of the brain" is in demand not just in Defoe's novels, but in addition in these of Fielding, Richardson, Smollett, Burney, and Edgeworth.
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Salters' Hall, which was used as a meeting house by dissenters for religious services and lectures, was the scene of a series of convocations held in February and March, 1719, in an effort to settle a dispute that had erupted at Exeter. In brief, two dissenting ministers in that town - James Peirce and Joseph Hallet - had been excluded from their pulpits because of their heterodox views on the divinity of Christ. 3 By a vote of57 to 53, the convocation at Salters' Hall advised the Exeter Assembly that "no human compositions, or interpretations of the doctrine of the Trinity" should be made a test of orthodoxy.
Hearing about this sermon the following week from his parishioners, Tomkins preached a sermon on July 1 3 in his own defense, arguing bn the basis of John 20: 21-23 that the terms of salvation belong to Christ to settle, not to man, and that the tendency to denounce as heretical any doctrine that conflicts with one's own beliefs only causes disharmony among the Christian faiths. On the specific question of the 6g The cureofthepassionsand theoriginsoftheEnglishnovel Defoeand thenaturalhistoryofthepassions deity, Tomkins denied that "the Orthodox Doctrine of the Trinity, in plain words, That theSonandtheHoly-GhostarethesameSubstance, thesameindividual Beingwith theFather;or in all respectsEqual to theFather"is "a Fundamental DoctrineofChristianity"or supported by any passage of scripture (22-23).
The passions in the Devil's warehouse are the source of the violent eruptions that manifest themselves as physical and mental illnesses. It is interesting that, for Defoe's lunar philosopher, the passions are not spirits that travel from the liver or spleen to the brain through the blood, nor are they voices, gases, sylphs, or any agents The cureefthepassionsand theoriginseftheEnglishnovel Defoeand thenaturalhistoryefthepassions external to the body. Rather, they are non-material faculties of mind that can only be represented by metaphors.