TABLE OF CONTENTS. Feathers, and other hard or solid Parts of XII. On the Digestive Function, and the Organs contributory to it; the different Kinds of Food employed by different Animals; and POWERS, AND EXTERNAL RELATIONS; MEANS OF COM- V. On the distinguishing Characters of Instinct, Sensation, and Intelligence - 157 VII. On Sleep, Dreaming, Revery, and Trance; Sleep-walking, and Sleep-talking VIII. On Voice and Language; Vocal Imitation, IX. On natural and inarticulate Language, or that of Animals; artificial and articulate X. On legible Language, imitative and sym- NATURE OF THE MIND: ITS GENERAL FACULTIES AND FURNITURE. Lect. I. On Materialism and Immaterialism II. On the Nature and Duration of the Soul, as Schools of Philosophy, and by Revelation III. On Human Understanding IV. The Subject continued V. On ancient and modern Sceptics VI. On the Hypothesis of Common Sense THE BOOK OF NATURE. SERIES I. LECTURE I. ON MATTER, AND A MATERIAL WORLD. In the comprehensive range of science proposed to be treated of in the SURREY INSTITUTION, the department to which I shall have the honour of inviting your attention will be that of NATURAL PHILOSOPHY, or PHYSICS, in the most extensive sense of these terms: that branch of science which makes use of the individual principles and discoveries of every other branch within the range of nature, as the architect makes use of the bricks, the mortar, the wood, and the marble of different artisans, and builds up the whole into a perfect edifice; which takes a bird's-eye view, as it were, of a picturesque and spreading landscape from some commanding eminence; and, without having laboured in the details of arranging the ground, of cultivating the soil, of planting the woods, of giving flexure to the rivers, of enriching the scenery with flocks, herds, bridges, and buildings, points out the general connection of part with part, and the harmony which flows from the combined effect. This, indeed, is to |