WORKS BY ISAAC TAYLOR. NATURAL HISTORY OF ENTHUSIASM. FANATICISM. SPIRITUAL DESPOTISM. PHYSICAL THEORY OF ANOTHER LIFE. HOME EDUCATION. ANCIENT CHRISTIANITY. LOYOLA, AND JESUITISM. WESLEY, AND METHODISM. THE RESTORATION OF BELIEF. THE WORLD OF MIND THE WORLD OF MIND. AN ELEMENTARY BOOK. BY ISAAC TAYLOR. LONDON: JACKSON AND WALFORD, 18, ST. PAUL'S CHURCHYARD. 1857. The Right of Reproduction and Translation is reserved. 265.625. PREFACE. THROUGHOUT the course of the years that have elapsed since the publication of a small volume, "Elements of Thought," I have held in view the purpose of following it by another, on the same subjects, but treated more at large. A time of absolute leisure, fitted for the due performance of such a task, I have waited for, and never found. Yet in place of a continuous season of leisure, there has been given me the leisure moments, and the hours, of many thoughtful years. During these years the principal subjects of Intellectual Philosophy have been constantly in my prospect, and the volume which is now offered to the Public is the fruit of these meditations, in this lapse of time. Intending to put into the Reader's hand an Elementary Book, of moderate size, such subjects only are introduced as might be presented apart from |