From Mark Hopkins, D. D., President of Williamstown College.

"I have read the book with great satisfaction, and think it well adapted to the purpose for which it is designed. It is a work containing much original and just thought, and I regard it as a valuable addition to our literature in this department."

From Simeon North, D. D., LL. D., President of Hamilton College. "I have examined with care the Elements of Intellectual Philosophy, by the Rev. Hubbard Winslow, of Boston, and take great pleasure in saying, that I deem it a work well fitted to subserve the study of that highly important department of knowledge. Its exhibition of the principles of Metaphysical Science, as developed by the most eminent writers on the subject in our language, is clear, concise, and comprehensive; and in a form well adapted to facilitate the progress of those who are just entering upon the study of the mind. In preparing it, its author appears to have had special reference to its use as a text book, and as such I deem it especially worthy the favorable consideration of instructors in this department of learning."

From Mr. Thomas Sherwin, Principal of the English High School, Boston.

"I have examined the treatise on Intellectual Philosophy, by the Rev. Hubbard Winslow, and have been much gratified by the manner in which the subject is treated. This branch of knowledge is very important, and should be so regarded in all our higher institutions of learning. But, unfortunately, it is often presented in a manner so dry and abstract, as to afford but little interest to the youthful mind. This work has presented the study in a form at once agreeable and easy of comprehension; and, I believe, it will be studied with no small degree of interest, as well as with much profit. With great confidence I commend it to all engaged either in learning or teaching intellectual philosophy."

From Mr. M. P. Case, Principal of the High School, Newburyport, Mass. "I can truly say, after considerable attention to its method and its merits, that it is, in my judgment, better adapted to the business of teaching than any similar work with which I am acquainted. The fulness of the discussion; the clearness with which the topics are presented and illustrated; and the fairness with which the

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opinions are stated, so decidedly mark its superiority for the teacher and the scholars, that I shall introduce it into my school as soon as the time arrives in which our senior class pursue that particular tudy. I hope and believe that this work on Intellectual Philosophy will awaken a deeper interest in a most important though too much neglected science."

From Mr. Charles D. Cleveland, Principal of an Institution for Young Ladies, in Philadelphia.

"I am thankful for the valuable addition recently made to our school literature, in the Elements of Intellectual Philosophy, by Mr. Winslow. I have examined it with care, and consider it the best text book for my first class that I have yet seen; and I shall soon show my faith by my works, (the only test of faith that is worth any thing,) by introducing it into my school. It has laid the fraternity of teachers under great obligations. I have here tofore given my pupils but little instruction in this department, for the want of a suitable text book.”

From Mr. Francis Bowen, Editor of the North American Review.

"I have examined the work with some care, and I think the author has been very successful in the difficult task of so presenting the great truths and problems of Intellectual Philosophy as to make them intelligible to youthful minds, and to those who have had little previous acquaintance with the subject. The style is very clear and simple, but concise, and the illustrations are well chosen, being such as will interest the reader, and throw light upon the theme of discussion. He has avoided the easily besetting sin of elementary writers upon this subject—that of cumbering the statements and the process of the argument with many words, with wire-drawn discussions and extraneous matter. He has supplied hints and suggested topics, which the judicious teacher and careful thinker will expand and pursue with more profit than if there were nothing left for him to do. The general tone of the book is excellent, the problems of mental science being always viewed in their proper relation to the inestimable truths of Christianity, so that Philosophy appears as the handmaid of Religion, not as its opponent, or as a substitute for it."

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From the Boston Transcript.

"The volume forms one of the most valuable and complete text. books in Intellectual Philosophy ever published; and every intelligent person should be in possession of the knowledge here to be bund, systematically arranged and clearly set forth. The book is not only well adapted to the purposes of colleges and the higher order of schools, but contains an amount of information which will be found very useful for reference to the advanced scholar and the general reader.”

From the Christian Witness and Advocate.

"This volume is worthy the attention of parents and teachers, and we shall be disappointed if, after a thorough trial, it does not rank high as a text book in the important science of which it treats."

From the Christian Examiner.

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"The author evidently had in view the preparation of a good philosophical manual for the use of the pupils of a well-taught school, and designed to make his work of the most intelligible and useful character to them. His aim was highly commendable, and we think he has accomplished it with very marked success. Winslow judges wisely in attaching great importance in education to that mode of disciplining the powers of thought and reason which is found in distinguishing the differences and relations of things. There is scarcely any defect more common, even among the pupils that have enjoyed our best means of education, than that of discrimination a word which cannot be fairly and fully defined without meaning almost the same as philosophy. We regard this volume as eminently well adapted to cultivate the faculty of discrimination in pupils, for it is intended to make them philosophize — to answer questions as well as to receive instruction. The main effort of the author seems to have been to render philosophy a matter of practical utility; to show that, so far from having no bearing upon things of daily use and value, as a vulgar prejudice judges of philosophy, it is eminently a guide to all that is actually useful and precious beyond a merely animal existence?