CONTENT S.

OF

INTRODUCTION.

PART I.

F the Nature and Object of the Philosophy of the Human Mind, Page 1

PART II.

SECTION I.-Of the Utility of the Philofophy of the Human Mind,

II.-Continuation of the fame Subject,

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СНАР. I.

Of the Powers of External Perception.

SECTION I. Of the Theories which have been formed by Philofophers, to explain the Manner in which the MIND perceives external Objects,

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II. Of certain natural Prejudices, which feem to have given rife to the common Theories of Perception,

III.-Of Dr. REID's Speculations on the Subject of Perception,
IV. Of the Origin of our Knowledge,

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SECTION I.-General Obfervations on this Faculty of the Mind,

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II. Of the Objects of our Thoughts, when we employ general

Terms,

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III.-Remarks on the Opinions of fome modern Philofophers on the

Subject of the foregoing Section,

IV.-Continuation of the fame Subject-Inferences with respect to the

Ufe of Language as an Inftrument of Thought, and the Errors

in Reasoning to which it occafionally gives rise,
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V. Of the Purposes to which the Powers of Abstraction and Gene-

ralisation are fubfervient,
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VI. Of the Errors to which we are liable in Speculation, and in the

Conduct of Affairs, in confequence of a rafh Application of

general Principles,

VII.-Continuation of the fame Subject.--Differences in the intel-

lectual Characters of Individuals, arifing from their different

Habits of Abstraction and Generalifation,

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VIII. Continuation of the fame Subject.——Use and Abuse of general

Principles in Politics,

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СНАР. V.

Of the Affociation of Ideas.

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PART I.

Of the Influence of Association in regulating the Succeffion of our Thoughts.

SECTION I.-General Obfervations on this Part of our Conftitution, and on the

Language of Philofophers with respect to it,

II. Of the Principles of Affociation among our Ideas,

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III. Of the Power which the Mind has over the Train of its Thoughts,

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IV.-Illustrations of the Doctrine ftated in the preceding Section, 295

V.-Application of the Principles stated in the foregoing Sections of

this Chapter, to explain the Phenomena of Dreaming, 320

Of the Influence of Association on the Intellectual and on the Active Powers.

SECTION I. Of the Influence of cafual Affociations on our fpeculative Con-

clufions,
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II.-Influence of the Affociation of Ideas on our Judgments in Matters

of Tafte,

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III. Of the Influence of Affociation on our active Principles and on

our moral Judgments,

CHA P. VI.

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Of Memory.

SECTION. I.-General Obfervations on Memory,

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II. Of the Varieties of Memory in different Individuals,

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SECTION III.-Of the Improvement of Memory.--Analysis of the Principles

on which the Culture of Memory depends,

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IV. Continuation of the fame Subject.Of the Aid which the Me-

mory derives from Philosophical Arrangement,
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V.-Continuation of the fame Subject.Effects produced on the

Memory by committing to Writing our acquired Knowledge, 441

VI.-Continuation of the fame Subject.-
-Of Artificial Memory, 449

VII.-Continuation of the fame Subject.--Importance of making a

proper Selection among the Objects of our Knowledge, in order

to derive Advantage from the Acquifitions of Memory,

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VIII. Of the Connection between Memory and philofophical Genius,

II.-Of Imagination confidered in its Relation to fome of the Fine

Arts,

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III.-Continuation of the fame Subject.--Relation of Imagination

and of Tafte to Genius,

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IV. Of the Influence of Imagination on human Character and Hap-

piness,

V.-Continuation of the fame Subject.--Inconveniences refulting

from an ill-regulated Imagination,

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VI.-Continuation of the fame Subject.--Important Uses to which the

Power of Imagination is fubfervient,

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NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS,

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ELEMENTS

Of the Nature and Object of the Philofophy of the Human

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Mind.

HE prejudice which is commonly entertained against Introduction. metaphysical speculations feems to arife chiefly from

two causes: First, from an apprehension that the subjects about which they are employed, are placed beyond the reach of the human faculties; and, Secondly, from a belief that these subje&s have no relation to the bufinefs of life.

THE frivolous and abfurd difcuffions which abound in the writings of moft Metaphyfical authors, afford but too many arguments in juftification of these opinions; and if fuch difcuffions were to be admitted as a fair fpecimen of what the hu