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PHILOSOPHY

OF

HUMAN NATU

BY

FRANCIS E. BREWSTER

"Shall I write only of the present times, and those wherein
has gone before me? If so, I may probably give offence to n
but few. However, this does not at all discourage me, for I w
resolution to bear testimony to the truth."-PLINY, B. V. L. 8

PHILADELPHIA:

GETZ & BUCK, No. 3 FAKT'S BUIL
1851:

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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.

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