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 Edin- Philadelphia. VOLUME FIRST. BOSTON: PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY WELLS AND LILLY. Court-Street. 1814 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 prosecution 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 considered as an Active and Moral being; and, thirdly, of Man considered as the member of a Political Society. COLLEGE OF EDINBURGH, March 13, 1792. CONTENTS. Page. CHAPTER I.-Of the Powers of External Perception SECTION I. Of the Theories which have been formed by Philosophers, to explain the Manner in which the MIND perceives external II. Of certain natural Prejudices, which seem to have given rise III.-Remarks on the Opinions of some modern Philosophers on the Subject of the foregoing Section IV. Continuation of the same Subject.-Inferences with respect to the Use of Language as an Instrument of Thought, and the Errours in Reasoning to which it occasionally gives rise V. Of the purposes to which the powers of Abstraction and Gen- |