ELEMENTS

OF THE

PHILOSOPHY OF THE HUMAN MIND.

OF THE

PHILOSOPHY

OF THE

HUMAN MIND.

BY

DUGALD STEWART, Esq. F.R. SS. LOND. & EDIN.

HONORARY MEMBER OF THE IMPERIAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES

AT ST PETERSBURGH ;

MEMBER OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF BERLIN ;
AND of the AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY HELD
AT PHILADELPHIA ;

FORMERLY PROFESSOR OF MORAL PHILOSOPHY IN THE
UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH.

VOLUME SECOND.

SECOND EDITION.

EDINBURGH:

Printed by George Ramsay and Company,

FOR ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE AND COMPANY, EDINBURGH;

AND CADELL AND DAVIES, LONDON.

1816.

ADVERTISEMENT.

AFTER an interval of more than twenty years, I venture to present to the public a Second Volume on the Philosophy of the Human Mind.

When the preceding Part was sent to the press, I expected that a few short chapters would comprehend all that I had further to offer concerning the Intellectual Powers; and that I should be able to employ the greater part of this Volume in examining those principles of our constitution, which are immediately connected with the Theory of Morals. On proceeding, however, to attempt an analysis of Reason, in the more strict acceptation of that term, I found so many doubts crowding on me with respect to the logical doctrines then generally received, that I was forced to abandon the comparatively limited plan according to which I had originally intended to treat of the Un