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Notes on Reading Harris's Treatise on Art

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It is common to every Art to be a Cause, and to have the additional requisite of Intention, Reason, Volition and Consciousness; so that not every Cause is Art, but only voluntary, intentional and habitual Cause; it is a power in man of becoming Cause. To every Art belongs a system of various and approved Precepts.

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Art is something learnt, something secondary and acquired, and never original to any being which possess it.

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Art can have no relation to the steady, abstract and neccesary Nature, but to the transient, particular and contingent one; from whence it follows that unclear regards all those contingent Nature which deletion common or universal subject /deletion lie within the reach of the human Powers to influence.

We may naturaly suppose that the deletion Cause which first /deletion addition beginning motives /addition or principle of Art arose from the want or absence of something appearing good; relative to human life, and attainable by Man, but superior to his natural and uninstructed Faculties ^ and that every Art will be accomplished and ended in a Work or Energy; the distinction of the two last words may require a little explanation; by energy ^ addition or operation /addition is meant every production the parts of which exist Successively, and whose nature hath its being or essence in a transition, by