PHILOSOPHY OF HUMAN NATU BY FRANCIS E. BREWSTER "Shall I write only of the present times, and those wherein PHILADELPHIA: GETZ & BUCK, No. 3 FAKT'S BUIL Entered according to the Act of Congress, i FRANCIS E. BREWSTE in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the H sylvania. PHILADELPHIA: K. AND P, G. COLLINS, PRIN NOTE TO THE READER. 7 Penn MUCH has been written in one place which perhaps to belong to another head. Some things irrelevant and unconnected, many valuable thoug doubt, been omitted, and some things said may be It may also be objected that there is a repetiti or principles, and that there are unnecessary or colored descriptions. To all which it is answered that the subjects these chapters are in their nature somewhat desult tive, rather than systematic. That they are in some measure complicated wit being independent of, and separated from, each ot Some repetition becomes unavoidable, because pulses run into, and stimulate different operations and are, therefore, explanatory of the various mo effects of different results. The consequences set forth are after all joint p many principles and causes combining to produce In treating of these various causes and secre becomes necessary, therefore, to bring in more t same causes and effects to show up the same aims All measures, be they good or be they bad, are b not by a single cause or act, but by a combinatio stances, or a series of acts and causes, all concurri them. |