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AN INTRODUCTION

TO MENTAL PHILOSOPHY.

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AUTHOR OF AN ESSAY ON THE DISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH,"

"ANALYSIS AND THEORY OF THE EMOTIONS,"

"A CLASSIFICATION OF THE SCIENCES,"

ETC. ETC.

EDINBURGH: ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK.

LONDON LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMANS.

RUGBY: CROSSLEY AND BILLINGTON.

M.D.CCC.LIII.

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PREFACE.

THE attempt made in the following pages to determine the meaning of some of the principal terms employed in Philosophy, may, to some, appear an ambitious undertaking; while, to others, it may seem merely a verbal affair. If to emulate the "Great of old" be ambition, to that the author must plead guilty; for Aristotle himself composed a Philosophical Vocabulary; and, on the other hand, that the object of such a work is useful and dignified, will be allowed by those who are best acquainted with the difficulties of Philosophy. I may mention in particular two distinguished philosophers of the present day, who have thus expressed themselves on this subject.

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