the idea of looking after, or of something looked after. As a termination, it still conveys the notion of looking or being in that direction, as in backward, heavenward, eastward, &c.

Y, is an affix expressive of abundance, and is generally added to nouns, to form adjectives having this signification. Hilly, woody, snowy, rainy, mean abounding with hills, woods, &c.

PART II.

INTELLECTUAL PHILOSOPHY.

OF

THE PHILOSOPHY

OF

THE MIND.

PHILOSOPHY, in the general acceptation of the term, means an enquiry concerning the nature, the cause, the use, and the effect of whatever becomes an object of attention. Hence, though we most frequently hear of natural and of moral philosophy, investigations of this kind are not confined to material and intellectual objects alone; there is a philosophy of rhetoric, of language, of history, of music, &c.

The philosophy of the mind, implies an attentive consideration of the manner in which it becomes possessed of knowledge, and of every operation in which it engages in the application of that knowledge, to the various purposes of scientific investigation, of invention, and of the ordinary business of life.