ELEMENTS

OF THE

PHILOSOPHY OF THE HUMAN MIND.

PRINTED BY JOHN STARK.

OF THE

PHILOSOPHY OF THE HUMAN MIND.

DUGALD STEWART, ESQ ERS. LOND. AND EDIN.

HONORARY MEMBER OF THE IMPERIAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AT ST petersburg;
MEMBER OF THE ROYAL ACADEMIES BERLIN AND OF NAPLES;
ND OF BOSTON AND

OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETIES OF PHILADELPHIA

IND

HONORARY MEMBER OF THE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF CAMBRIDGE
FORMERLY Professor of MORAL PHILOSOPHY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH.

VOLUME THIRD.

&

TO WHICH ARE ANNEXED,

ADDITIONS TO VOLUME FIRST.

LONDON:

JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE-STREET.

MDCCCXXVII.

PREFACE.

THIRTY-FOUR years have now elapsed since the First Volume of this Work was published. At that time, I imagined that a few additional chapters would be sufficient for completing my Review of the Intellectual Powers; but the subject, upon a more narrow examination, has gradually grown so much on my hands, that it has at length swelled to its present magnitude. To this I may add my Volume of Philosophical Essays, the first part of which may be regarded as a comment on some elementary and fundamental questions which have divided the opinions of philosophers in the eighteenth century. If any of my younger readers should do me the honour to follow me through these researches, I should wish them to peruse my Philosophical Works in the order in which they