MENTAL AND MORAL SCIENCE. A COMPENDIUM OF PSYCHOLOGY AND ETHICS. BY ALEXANDER BAIN, M.A.. PROFESSOR OF LOGIC IN THE UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN. SECOND EDITION. LONDON: LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO. 265, J. 70. (The right of Transation is reserved.) BIB PREFACE. THE present treatise contains a Systematic Exposition of MIND, a History of the leading QUESTIONS in Mental Philosophy, and a copious Dissertation on ETHICS. The Exposition of MIND, occupying nearly half the work, is, for the most part, an abridgement of my two volumes on the subject. I have singled out, and put in conspicuous type, the leading positions; and have given a sufficient number of examples to make them understood. It is not to be expected that the full effect of the larger exposition can be produced in the shorter; still, there may be an occasional advantage in the more succinct presentation of complicated doctrines. As regards the Controverted QUESTIONS, I have entered fully into the history of opinion, so as to exhibit the different views, both formerly, and at present, entertained on each. Nominalism and Realism, the Origin of Knowledge in the mind, External Perception, Beauty, and Freewill, are the chief subjects thus treated. The Dissertation on ETHICS is divided into two parts. Part First-The Theory of Ethics-gives an account of the questions or points brought into discussion; and handles at length the two of greatest prominence, the Ethical Standard, and the Moral Faculty. Part Second-The Ethical Systems-is a full detail of all the systems, ancient and modern, by conjoined Abstract "}w exceptions, an abstract is wat onthes exposition of his own theory, the my relative importance; while, for assig den send remembering the several theories, ne vennes and at the end, on a uniform plan. a wywicy with the view of furnishing a complete Monial and Moral Philosophy, that I have medied 'n dhe same volume, a System of Psychology, and Adore Dissertation on Ethics. The connexion of ae wo subjects is of the most intimate kind; all the cading Mhical controversies involve a reference to the naud, and can be settled only by a more thorough undersacuding of mental processes. N ABERDEEN, April, 1868. TABLE OF CONTENTS. ... ... 2. The Object department marked by Extension; the Subject, by 3. Subject Experience-Mind proper has three functions, Feeling, 2. The Nervous System consists of a Central mass, and ramifying 3. The nervous substance made up of white and of grey matter. 4. The Central nerves, or cerebro-spinal axis composed of parts. I. The SPINAL CORD; the Reflex Movements. II. The BRAIN. Parts of the Brain: (1) Medulla Oblongata, (2) Pons Varolii, (3) Cerebral Hemispheres, (4) Cerebellum; their several func- tions 5. The nerves are divided into Cerebral and Spinal ib. 234 ib. MOVEMENT AND THE MUSCULAR FEELINGS. 1. Muscular Feelings compared with Sensations. The muscular 2. Spontaneous Activity of the system. Proofs and illustrations |