Contents.

CHAP. 1.-Utility of Intellectual

Philosophy.

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Prejudice existing against this science

Of the Metaphysicks of the schools

Supposed practical inutiluty of this science 3

Its supposed practical inutility answered

Teaches us how to direct our inquiries

Remarks of Mr. Locke on this point

Helps us in the correction of mental errors 7

Is the gratification of a rea-onable curiosity 8

A hel in directing education

Instructs in the nature of language

Has a connexion with moral philosophy

Teaches to revere the divine wiscon

Mental effort necessary in this study

CHAP. I.-Primary Truths

Introductory remarks on this subject

Belief in our personal existence

Belief of our personal identity

Knowledge of the figure of bodies by si

The senses reciprocally assist each oth

Writers on our visual perceptions

CHAP. IV.-No Innate Kno

edge.

Innate ideas before the time of Mr. Lock

Enumeration of innate principles

Argument on subject of innate knowledg

Mr. Locke's opinions on this subject

Opinions of Plate and Aristotle.

Prevailing opinions at the present time

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CHAP. V.-Origin of Simple

Ideas.

Simple ideas received from the senses, &

Of verbal explanations of simple ideas

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Division of our simple ideas

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Of simple ideas from one sense only

Simple ideas from more than que sense

Of simple ideas from reflection

The external, material world has existence 17

Confidence is to be reposed in the memory 18

Man susceptible of a variety of emotions

This subject viewed in reference to God

CHAP. III.-Perception.

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CHAP. VI. Simple and Mixed

Modes.

25 Division of complex ideas into three kinds

26 Of complex ideas called simple modes

27 Of simple modes from number

28 Instance of skill in the use of numbers

29 Simple modes from duration

30 Simple modes from extension

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Idea of infinity

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Complex ideas called mixed modes

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Three ways of forming mixed modes

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Not the same mixed modes in all languages 69

Of the benefits of the sense of sight
Mode or process in visual perception
Connexion of the brain with perception
Impressions on the senses and perceptions 35
Of the estimation of distances by sight 36

Further illustrations of this subject 37 CHAP. VII.-Ideas of Substance.

Idea of extension not originally from sight 38

Measurements of magnitude by the eye 39 What understood by ideas of substance

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Connection of ideas of extension and time 167

Of high and low notes in musick 168

Connection of ideas of extension & colour 169

Whether there be heat in fire. &c.

Whether there be meaning in words

Benefi of examining such associations

Power of the will over mental associations 173

CHAP. XV.-Of Attention.

Nature of attention, &c

Depende er of memory on attention

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CHAP. XIX --Demonstrative

Reasoning.

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Of truth and different kinds of it
Ways in which truth is discovered
Of Truth or knowledge from intuition
174 Definition and kind- of proposi tons
175 Definition-,&c in demonstrative reasoning 2.4

Rapidity in attending to differen objects 176 | Subjects of demons rative reasoning

177 Opposites of such reason ng

Of attention in connection with habits

Attention in legerdeinam & ventriloquism 178

Of attending to more than one object at

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Attention when one of the sees is lost 183

Of attention in men in active life

Of exercising attention in reading

CHAP. XVI.- Of Conceptions.

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|| Admits not of different degrees of belief

Of the nature of demonstrative certainly 228

U-e of diagrams in de monstrations

Lofluence on the mental character

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CHAP. XX.--Moral Reasoning.

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Of the nature of oral certainty

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Ofea-oning from analogy

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Caution in reasoning from analogy

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Of reasoning by induction

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Caution necessary in inductive processes 236

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Of the evidence of estimony

Grounds of belief in tes imony

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Meaning of conceptions. &c.

Of conceptions of objects of sight

Influence of habit on our conceptions

Subserviency of conceptions to description

Of conceptions attended with belief

Conceptions when joined with perceptions 191

Conceptions at tragical representations

Conceptions and apparitions

Confidence in testimony founded in an

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original tendency of our constitution 239

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Operation of association in reasoning

Grounds of the selection of propositions 241

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Limitation of power over arguments

O requisites in a skilful reasoner

CHAP. XVII.--Of Abstract Ideas. Of moral reasoning as suited to our situ

Extensive application of the term beauty 283 CHAP. XXVI.-Of Wit and Hu-

Partial insanity in character of Don Quixote.

Quickness of thought in insane persons

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CHAP. XXVIII.-The Will, Con- Readiness of reasoning in the insane

science &c.

Effect of insanity on the memory

Momentary impulses inclining to insanity 395

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Moral accountability in mental alienation 397

345 Imputation of insanity to individuals

Of the treatment of the insane

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Encouragement to inaking moral efforts 349

Motives are mo lifications of our feelings 350

Of moral motives

Virtue and vice in agents, not in actions 352

True import of the terms, virtue and vice.

merit and demerit

Of moral obligation and conscience 354

Want of uniformity in moral judgments

Conscience perverted by passion

Complexity in actions a source of con-

fusion in our moral judgments

CHAP. XXXI.--Origin of Prej-

udices.

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Influence of early associations on moral

judgments

Prejudices of presumption

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Prejudices of enthusiasm

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Of enlightening the conscience

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Prejudices of superstition

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Of guilt when a person acts conscien-

Prejudices of superstition contagious

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tiously

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Superstition in times of distress, &c.

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Prejudices of personal friendships

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CHAP. XXIX.-The Passions.

Prejudices of custom or fashion

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Correctives of fashionable prejudices

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Prejudices of mental indolence

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Various significations of the term, passion 361 | Methods of subduing prejudices

CHAP. XXXII.-Evidence of

Testimony.

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Of fear

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Of possibility of aconfutation & testimony 426

On the credibility of historical accounts 427

CHAP. XXXIII.-Education.

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376 Meaning & earliest sources of education 428

377 Introduction of imaginary and false ideas 429

Guarding against prejudices in general 430

Uniform developement of mental powers 431

Of diver-ities in gemus and temper

Of moral and religious education

Of education for particular arts. &c.

Formation of intellectual habits

Of a thorough examination of subjects

384 Of a command of the attention

385 Of physical education

386 Of social intercourse, &c.

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387 Education suitable to a citizen. &c.

388 Of mathematicks and other sciences