This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1839 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER II. IMPROVEMENT OF APPREHENSION. There are certain things respecting which we have no doubt; as, of our own existence: that is, our pains and pleasures, our feelings, our appetites, our desires, and the gratification of them;--our minds: that is, our thoughts and recollections, our Wishes, our ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1839 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER II. IMPROVEMENT OF APPREHENSION. There are certain things respecting which we have no doubt; as, of our own existence: that is, our pains and pleasures, our feelings, our appetites, our desires, and the gratification of them;--our minds: that is, our thoughts and recollections, our Wishes, our hopes, our joys and sorrows;--our senses. The operations also of these: as, that music produces pleasure; discords, displeasure; fear produces pain; ambition and hope, exertion. The great object in our search after truth, is to bring other subjects to the same degree of clearness and certainty as these, as nearly as possible. Instead of which, metaphysical philosophers (and most moral philosophers of the European school, having formed their principles after the Grecian model, have been of this description, ) have chiefly busied themselves in trying to analyze those things which are certain: as, to discover what thought and sensation are, and the cause of their operation; how ideas are excited in the mind; whence come memory, recollection, and consciousness; which is the correct division, enumeration, and arrangement of them, --instead of the mode in which they may be applied most usefully, and improved most practically. It is plain that such inquiry and analysis can be of no real value, except for curiosity and amusement, and for the purpose of arranging the subjects for subsequent recollection or convenient treatment. And as these are matters of comparatively little consequence, any lengthened or intricate discussion for the sake of them, must tend to give them an importance which does not belong to them, and to lead the attention astray from what should always be the principal inquiry, namely, how the faculties of the mind may be best.
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