ON THE INTELLECTUAL POWERS OF MAN. BY THOMAS REID, D. D., F. R. S. E. ABRIDGED. WITH NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS FROM SIR WILLIAM HAMILTON EDITED BY JAMES WALKER, D. D., PROFESSOR OF INTELLECTUAL AND MORAL PHILOSOPHY IN HARVARD COLLEGE Sixth Edition. BOSTON: PHILLIPS, SAMPSON, AND COMPANY. NEW YORK: J. C. DERBY. 1855. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1850, by in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. ALVAN B. HASTY, PRINTER, 3 WATER ST., BOSTON. EDITOR'S NOTICE. THE psychology generally taught in England and this country for the last fifty years has been that of the Scotch school, of which Dr. Reid is the acknowledged head. The influence of the same doctrines is also apparent in the improved state of philosophy in several of the Continental nations, and particularly in France. Sir W. Hamilton dedicates his annotated edition of Reid's works to M. Cousin, the distinguished philosopher and statesman "through whom Scotland has been again united intellectually to her old political ally, and the author's writings (the best result of Scottish speculation) made the basis of academical instruction in philosophy throughout the central nation of Europe." The name of Reid, therefore, historically considered, is second to none among British psychologists and metaphysicians, with perhaps the single exception of Locke. His Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man have likewise intrinsic and peculiar merits, especially as a manual to be used by those who are just entering on the study. The spirit and tone are unexceptionable; the style has a freshness and an interest which betoken the original thinker; technicalities are also avoided to a great degree, by which means, and by the frequent use of familiar and sometimes |