ΤΟ THE REVEREND THOMAS REID, D.D. PROFESSOR OF MORAL PHILOSOPHY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW, THIS WORK IS INSCRIBED, IN TESTIMONY OF THE RESPECT AND AFFECTION OF THE AUTHOR. a ADVERTISEMENT. IN various parts of the following Work, references are made to fubfequent speculations, 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 profecution of it, I cannot venture fo far as to announce, in the title-page of this volume, any promise of a future publication. Some additional chapters are ftill wanting, to complete the Analyfis 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. |