An inquiry into the human mind on the principles of common sense / by Thomas Reid.

  • Reid, Thomas, 1710-1796.
Date:
1824
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    TO I HE RIGHT HONOURABLE 'AMES, EARL OF FINDLATER AND SEAFIELD. Chancellor of the University of Old Aberdeen !My Loed, THOUGH I apprehend thatthere are things new and ofs'ime importance, in the following inquiry it is not without timidity that I have consented to the publication of it. The subject has been can- vassed by men of very great penetration and ge nius: for who does not acknowledge Des Cartes, Alalebranche, Locke, Berkeley, and Hume, to be. -neb? A view of the human understanding, sc different from that which Ihey have exhibi'ed. will, no doubt, be condemned by many withou' examination, as proceeding from temerity and vanity But I hope the candid and discerning Few who are capable of attending to the operations o! their own minds, will weigh deliberately what :' here advanced; before they pass sentence upon if.