Copyright, 1889, BY CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS. 40169 BD21 M2 The Riverside Press, Cambridge: 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. REL UNIVE CALIFOR CHAPTER VIII. — (SUPPLEMENTARY.) OUR INTUITION OF BODY BY THE SENSES. Account by Müller. DISTINCTIONS TO BE ATTENDED TO IN OUR COGNITION OF BODY. Difficulties in sense of sight. Apparent deception of the senses. Views, of Eleatics, Plato, Aristotle, Stoics. Epicureans and Aca- |