 Thomas Reid’s theory of taste, as developed in the final essay of his Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man (first published in 1785), makes use of a range of theoretical resources that had become available by the last decades of the Eighteenth Century. Its account of sublimity owes to Burke; its treatment of novelty owes to Addison and to Gerard; the use it makes of association may owe to Gerard as well. But as an internal-sense theory its debt is principally to Hutcheson and to Shaftesbury.