PROFESSOR OF MORAL PHILOSOPHY IN THE UNIVERSITY, AND FELLOW OF

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ADVERTISEMENT.

IN various parts of the following Work, references are made to subsequent speculations, which are not contained in it. These speculations it is my intention to resume at some future period: but when I consider the extent of my subject, and the many accidents which may divert me from the profecution of it, I cannot venture so far as to announce, in the title-page of this volume, any promise of a future publication.

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

COLLEGE OF EDINBURGH,
March 13, 1792.

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SECT. I. Of the Utility of the Philosophy of the

Human Mind,

II. Continuation of the same Subject,

CHAP. I.

Of the Powers of External Perception.

SECT. I. Of the Theories which have been formed

by, Philosophers, to explain the Manner

in which the MIND perceives external

Objects,

II. Of certain natural Prejudices, which seem

to have given rise to the common The-

ories of Perception,

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III.-Of Dr. Reid's Speculations on the Sub-

ject of Perception,

IV. Of the Origin of our Knowledge,

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CHAP. II.

Of Attention,

CHAP. III.

Of Conception,

CHAP. IV.

Of Abstraction.

SECT. I.-General Observations on this Faculty of

the Mind,

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