Hartlepool were important throughout the middle ages. In 1216 John confirmed to Robert Bruce the market on Wednesday granted to his father and the fair on the feast of St Lawrence; this fair was extended to fifteen days by the grant of 1230, while the charter of 1595 also granted a fair and market. During the 14th century trade was carried on with Germany, Spain and Holland, and in 1346 Hartlepool provided five ships for the French war, being considered one of the chief seaports in the kingdom. The markets were still considerable in Camden’s day, but declined during the 18th century, when Hartlepool became fashionable as a watering-place.
HARTLEY, SIR CHARLES AUGUSTUS (1825– ), English
engineer, was born in 1825 at Heworth, Durham. Like most
engineers of his generation he was engaged in railway work in
the early part of his career, but subsequently he devoted himself
to hydraulic engineering and the improvement of estuaries and
harbours for the purposes of navigation. He was employed in
connexion with some of the largest and most important waterways
of the world. After serving in the Crimea as a captain of
engineers in the Anglo-Turkish contingent, he was in 1856
appointed engineer-in-chief for the works carried out by the
European Commission of the Danube for improving the navigation
at the mouths of that river, and that position he retained
till 1872, when he became consulting engineer to the Commission
(see Danube). In 1875 he was one of the committee appointed
by the authority of the U.S.A. Congress to report on the works
necessary to form and maintain a deep channel through the south
pass of the Mississippi delta; and in 1884 the British government
nominated him a member of the international technical commission
for widening the Suez Canal. In addition he was consulted by
the British and other governments in connexion with many other
river and harbour works, including the improvement of the
navigation of the Scheldt, Hugli, Don and Dnieper, and of the
ports of Odessa, Trieste, Kustendjie, Burgas, Varna and Durban.
He was knighted in 1862, and became K.C.M.G. in 1884.
HARTLEY, DAVID (1705–1757), English philosopher, and
founder of the Associationist school of psychologists, was born
on the 30th of August 1705. He was educated at Bradford
grammar school and Jesus College, Cambridge, of which society
he became a fellow in 1727. Originally intended for the Church,
he was deterred from taking orders by certain scruples as to
signing the Thirty-nine Articles, and took up the study of
medicine. Nevertheless, he remained in the communion of the
English Church, living on intimate terms with the most distinguished
churchmen of his day. Indeed he asserted it to be a
duty to obey ecclesiastical as well as civil authorities. The
doctrine to which he most strongly objected was that of eternal
punishment. Hartley practised as a physician at Newark,
Bury St Edmunds, London, and lastly at Bath, where he died on
the 28th of August 1757. His Observations on Man was published
in 1749, three years after Condillac’s Essai sur l’origine des
connaissances humaines, in which theories essentially similar
to his were expounded. It is in two parts—the first dealing
with the frame of the human body and mind, and their mutual
connexions and influences, the second with the duty and expectations
of mankind. His two main theories are the doctrine of
vibrations and the doctrine of associations. His physical
theory, he tells us, was drawn from certain speculations as to
nervous action which Newton had published in his Principia.
His psychological theory was suggested by the Dissertation concerning
the Fundamental Principles of Virtue or Morality, which
was written by a clergyman named John Gay (1699–1745), and
prefixed by Bishop Law to his translation[1] of Archbishop King’s
Latin work on the Origin of Evil, its chief object being to show
that sympathy and conscience are developments by means of
association from the selfish feelings.
The outlines of Hartley’s theory are as follows. With Locke he asserted that, prior to sensation, the human mind is a blank. By a growth from simple sensations those states of consciousness which appear most remote from sensation come into being. And the one law of growth of which Hartley took account was the law of contiguity, synchronous and successive. By this law he sought to explain, not only the phenomena of memory, which others had similarly explained before him, but also the phenomena of emotion, of reasoning, and of voluntary and involuntary action (see Association of Ideas).
By his physical theory Hartley gave the first strong impulse to the modern study of the intimate connexion of physiological and psychical facts which has proved so fruitful, though his physical theory in itself is inadequate, and has not been largely adopted. He held that sensation is the result of a vibration of the minute particles of the medullary substance of the nerves, to account for which he postulated, with Newton, a subtle elastic ether, rare in the interstices of solid bodies and in their close neighbourhood, and denser as it recedes from them. Pleasure is the result of moderate vibrations, pain of vibrations so violent as to break the continuity of the nerves. These vibrations leave behind them in the brain a tendency to fainter vibrations or “vibratiuncles” of a similar kind, which correspond to “ideas of sensation.” Thus memory is accounted for. The course of reminiscence and of the thoughts generally, when not immediately dependent upon external sensation, is accounted for on the ground that there are always vibrations in the brain on account of its heat and the pulsation of its arteries. What these vibrations shall be is determined by the nature of each man’s past experience, and by the influence of the circumstances of the moment, which causes now one now another tendency to prevail over the rest. Sensations which are often associated together become each associated with the ideas corresponding to the others; and the ideas corresponding to the associated sensations become associated together, sometimes so intimately that they form what appears to be a new simple idea, not without careful analysis resolvable into its component parts.
Starting, like the modern Associationists, from a detailed account of the phenomena of the senses, Hartley tries to show how, by the above laws, all the emotions, which he analyses with considerable skill, may be explained. Locke’s phrase “association of ideas” is employed throughout, “idea” being taken as including every mental state but sensation. He emphatically asserts the existence of pure disinterested sentiment, while declaring it to be a growth from the self-regarding feelings. Voluntary action is explained as the result of a firm connexion between a motion and a sensation or “idea,” and, on the physical side, between an “ideal” and a motory vibration. Therefore in the Freewill controversy Hartley took his place as a determinist. It is singular that, as he tells us, it was only with reluctance, and when his speculations were nearly complete, that he came to a conclusion on this subject in accordance with his theory.
See life of Hartley by his son in the 1801 edition of the Observations, which also contains notes and additions translated from the German of H. A. Pistorius; Sir Leslie Stephen, History of English Thought in the Eighteenth Century (3rd ed., 1902), and article in the Dictionary of National Biography; G. S. Bower, Hartley and James Mill (1881); B. Schönlank, Hartley und Priestley die Begründer des Assoziationismus in England (1882). See also the histories of philosophy and bibliography in J. M. Baldwin’s Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology (1905), vol. iii.
HARTLEY, JONATHAN SCOTT (1845– ), American
sculptor, was born at Albany, New York, on the 23rd of
September 1845. He was a pupil of E. D. Palmer, New York,
and of the schools of the Royal Academy, London; he later
studied for a year in Berlin and for a year in Paris. His first
important work (1882) was a statue of Miles Morgan, the Puritan,
for Springfield, Mass. Among his other works are the Daguerre
monument in Washington; “Thomas K. Beecher,” Elmira,
New York, and “Alfred the Great,” Appellate Court House,
New York. He devoted himself particularly to the making of
portrait busts, in which he attained high rank. In 1891 he
became a member of the National Academy of Design.
HARTLIB, SAMUEL (c. 1599–c. 1670), English writer on
education and agriculturist, was born towards the close of the
16th century at Elbing in Prussia, his father being a refugee
merchant from Poland. His mother was the daughter of a rich
English merchant at Danzig. About 1628 Hartlib went to
England, where he carried on a mercantile agency, and at the
same time found leisure to enter with interest into the public
questions of the day. An enthusiastic admirer of Comenius, he
published in 1637 his Conatuum Comenianorum praeludia, and
in 1639 Comenii pansophiae prodromus et didactica dissertatio.
In 1641 appeared his Relation of that which hath been lately
attempted to procure Ecclesiastical Peace among Protestants, and
A Description of Macaria, containing his ideas of what a model
state should be. During the civil war Hartlib occupied himself
- ↑ Anonymously in the 1731 ed., with acknowledgment in the 1758 ed.
