P.1763,

ELEMENTS

OF THE

PHILOSOPHY

OF THE

HUMAN MIND.

BY DUGALD STEWART,

PROFESSOR OF MORAL PHILOSOPHY IN THE UNIVERSITY, AND FELLOW OF
THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH ;

HONORARY MEMBER OF THE IMPERIAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES

ADVERTISEMENT.

IN 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 some future period: but when I confider the extent of my subject, and the many accidents which may divert me from the prosecution of it, I cannot venture so far as to announce, in the title-page of this volume, any promife 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 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.

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

Human Mind,

II. Continuation of the same Subject,

CHAP. I.

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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-

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

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ories of Perception,

ject of Perception,

IV. Of the Origin of our Knowledge,

CHAP. II.

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SECT. I.-General Observations on this Faculty of