"Because bodies are affected only by contact and pressure, we are apt to conceive, that what is an immediate object of thought, and affects the mind, must be in contact with it, and make some impression upon it."
Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man
4 entries in ESTC (1785, 1786, 1790, 1793).<br>
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See Thomas Reid, <u>Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man</u> (Edinburgh and London: Printed for John Bell, and G.G.J. & J. Robinson, 1785). &lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=2A4cAQAAMAAJ">Link to Google Books</a>&gt;