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Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind. By Dugald Stewart, Esq. F. R. S. Edin. &c. &c. Vol. ii. pp. 554. Edinburgh. 1814. E We know not whether it be owing to the very high repute which the experimental sciences have of late so deservedly acquired, or to the low estimation into which the abstract sciences would seem, as undeservedly, to have fallen: it is, however, remarkable, that, since the commencement of our labours, the present opportunity is the first which has been afforded us, of stating our sentiments in due form, upon the metaphysical heresies of our northern neighbours. The publication of Mr. Stewart's Philosophical Essays' might, perhaps, in some respects, be mentioned as an instance to the contrary; but, as the subjects of those truly eloquent disputations were not, in general, very nearly connected with any of the great and characteristical doctrines of his particular school, we hardly consider it as furnishing a just exception to our remark. Such is not the case with the volume which we have now the pleasure of recommending to the attention of our readers. In this, they will meet with a full and fair exposition of his philosophical creed, together with a very skilful attack upon those scholastic prejudices' which, he seems to think, still maintain their ground in our most celebrated seats of learning.' Before, however, we finally abandon the articles of faith de omni inscibili et ineffabili, as by law established in the universities of this land, it may be useful to take a general survey of the doctrines which it is proposed to substitute in their stead. It is one thing to innovate and another to reform; when alterations are recommended in ancient establishments, a prudent man will take into his consideration, not only the defects which it is intended to remedy, but also the means by which the remedy is to be effected. In such cases, it is always in favour of existing institutions and old opinions that the mind should give its casting vote. Unless the changes which are proposed be plainly and incontrovertibly for the better, a man is not to be accused of bigotry for adhering to the customs and notions in which he has been brought up. On this account, we must entreat that Mr. Stewart will put a candid construction upon the the freedom with which we shall examine the innovations which he wishes to introduce into the philosophy of the mind. For himself personally, and for his writings also, we entertain the highest and most unfeigned respect. We should be truly sorry to give any just cause of offence to one who wears his own faculties so meekly, great and admirable as they are; but as long as we urge our own opinions with temper, and discuss his with fairness, we trust that in other respects, a little occasional earnestness of manner will be excused by him, in favour of the deep and perilous importance which we consider some of his fundamental tenets to possess. He should remember that it is his opinions and not ours which are new, and consequently that we must be regarded rather as defending ourselves, than as making any attack upon him. Mr. Stewart's former productions, and more particularly the volume to which the one before us is intended as a sequel, have been so long before the public, and are so very generally admired, that it would now seem to be a work of supererogation, either to describe or to praise them. On the subject of his Philosophical Essays,' we have already had occasion to deliver our opinions; and as to those which we entertain respecting his earliest and most popular production, they will be best collected in the process of our remarks upon the merits of his philosophy in general. The volume which I now publish,' says Mr. Stewart in his advertisement, is more particularly intended for the use of academical students, and is offered to them as a guide or assistant at that important stage of their progress, when the usual course of discipline being completed, an inquisitive mind is naturally led to review its past attainments, and to propose plans for its future improvement. In the prosecution of this design, I have not aimed at the establishment of new theories, far less have I aspired to the invention of any new organ for the discovery of truth. My principal object is, to aid my readers in unlearning the scholastic errors which, in a greater or less degree, still maintain their ground in our most celebrated seats of learning; and in subjecting to free, but I trust not sceptical, discussion, the more enlightened though discordant systems of modern logicians, to accustom the understanding to the unfettered exercise of its native capacities.' This general object, as we learn at the conclusion of his work, he has proposed to accomplish, by aiming, in the first place, to correct some fundamental errors, in the theories commonly received with respect to the powers of intuition and reasoning; and, secondly, by illustrating some doctrines, connected with the groundwork of the inductive logic, which have been either over-looked or misapprehended by the generality of preceding writers.' The execution of such a design as this would certainly seem to promise us more instruction than amusement; we are, however, by ng |