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THE REVEREND

THOMAS REID, D.D.

PROFESSOR OF MORAL PHILOSOPHY

IN THE UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW,

THIS WORK

IS. INSCRIBED,

IN TESTIMONY OF

THE RESPECT AND AFFECTION

OF

THE AUTHOR.

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ADVERTISEMENT.

various parts of the following Work, references are made to fubfequent fpeculations, which are not contained in it. Thefe fpeculations it is my intention to refume at fome future period: but when I confider the extent of my fubject, and the many accidents which may divert me from the profecution of it, I cannot venture fo far as to announce, in the title-page of this volume, any promife of a future publication.

Some additional chapters are ftill wanting,. to complete the Analyfis of the Intellectual Powers. After finifhing this, the course of my inquiries would lead me to treat, in the fecond place, of Man confidered as an Active and Moral being; and, thirdly, of Man confidered as the member of a Political Society.

COLLEGE OF EDINBURGH,

March 13, 1792.