OF THE Philosophy of the Human Mind. BY DUGALD STEWART, Esq. F. R. S. EDIN. TWO VOLUMES BOUND IN ONE. VOLUME FIRST. ALBANY: PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY E. AND E. HOSFORD. 1822. 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. CONTENTS. Page CHAPTER I.-Of the Powers of external Perception SECTION I. Of the Theories which have been formed by Philoso- phers, to explain the Manner in which the MIND per- II. Of certain natural Prejudices, which seem to have given rise to the common Theories of Perception SECTION I.-General Observations on this Faculty of the Mind II. Of the Objects of our Thoughts, when we employ III.-Remarks on the Opinions of some modern Philoso- phers 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 |