DR. MCCOSH'S WORKS. FIRST AND FUNDAMENTAL TRUTHS. Being a Treatise on Metaphysics. $2.00. PSYCHOLOGY. The Cognitive Powers. $1.50. PSYCHOLOGY. The Motive Powers. $1.50. THE EMOTIONS. $2.00. REALISTIC PHILOSOPHY. Defended in a Philosophic Series. 2 vols., 12mo. Net, paper, 15 cents. Vol. I., Expository. Vol. II., Historical and Critical. $1.50 each. THE RELIGIOUS ASPECT OF EVOLUTION. $1.00. THE PREVAILING TYPES OF PHILOSOPHY: Do they reach Reality Logically? 75 cents, net. THE METHOD OF THE DIVINE GOVERNMENT. Physical and Moral. $2.00. A DEFENCE OF FUNDAMENTAL TRUTH. $2.00. SCOTTISH PHILOSOPHY. Biographical, Expository, and Critical. $2.00. LOGIC, LAWS OF DISCURSIVE THOUGHT. $1.50. GOSPEL SERMONS. $1.50. THE TESTS OF THE VARIOUS KINDS OF TRUTH. $1.00. TRUTHS BEING A TREATISE ON METAPHYSICS BY JAMES MCCOSH, D. D., LL. D., LITT. D. EX-PRESIDENT OF PRINCETON COLLEGE, author of METHOD OF DIVINE 99.66 OF THE COGNITIVE POWERS, PSYCHOLOGY OF THE MOTIVE POWERS" " REALISTIC NEW YORK 1892 Copyright, 1889, BY CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS. The Riverside Press, Cambridge: t Hil 58 1177 PREFACE. EVERY thinking mind has occasion at times to refer to first principles. In this work I have set myself earnestly to inquire what these are; to determine their nature, and to classify and arrange them into a science. In pursuing this end I have reached a Realistic Philosophy, opposed alike to the Sceptical Philosophy, which has proceeded from Hume, in England, and the Idealistic Philosophy, which has ramified from Kant, in Germany; while I have also departed from the Scottish and higher French Schools, as I hold resolutely that the mind, in its intelligent acts, begins with, and proceeds throughout, on a cognition of things. If the mind does not assume and start with things, it can never reach realities by any process of reasoning or induction. This work contains the results of my teaching of very large classes in Queen's College, Belfast, Ireland, and in Princeton College, America, and may be regarded as the cope-stone of what I have been able to do in philosophy. I have expounded my philosophy in the text, and put the historical and critical disquisitions in smaller print; to be read continuously as carrying on the discussion, or to be reserved for reference-as my readers may find it best suited to accomplish the end they have in view. PRINCETON, N. J., February, 1889. |