THE WORKS от THOMAS REID, D. D. F. R.S. EDINBURGH. LATE PROFESSOR OF MORAL PHILOSOPHY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW. WITH AN ACCOUNT OF HIS LIFE AND WRITINGS, BY DUGALD STEWART, F. R. S. WITH NOTES, BY THE AMERICAN EDITORS IN FOUR VOLUMES.........VOL. II. CHARLESTOWN, PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY SAMUEL ETHERIDGE, JUN'R. 1814. 11. Of the impressions on the organs, nerves, and brain 111. Hypotheses concerning the nerves and brain IV. False conclusions drawn from the impressions before men- VI. What it is to account for a phenomenon in nature VII. Sentiments of philosophers about the perception of external XVII. Of the objects of perception; of primary and secondary 1. Of conception, or simple apprehension in general 11. Theories concerning conception DEDICATION. то MR. DUGALD STEWART, LATELY PROFESSOR OF MATHEMATICS, NOW PROFESSOR OF MORAL PHILOSOPHY; AND DR. JAMES GREGORY, PROFESSOR OF THE THEORY OF PHYSIC, IN THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH. My dear Friends, I KNOW not to whom I can address these Essays with more propriety than to you; not only on account of a friendship begun in early life on your part, though in old age on mine, and in one of you I may say hereditary; nor yet on account of that correspondence in our literary pursuits and amusements, which has always given me so great pleasure; but because, if these Essays have any merit, you have a considerable share in it, having not only encouraged me to hope that they may be useful, but favoured me with your observations on every part of them, both before they were sent to press and while they were under it. I have availed myself of your observations, so as to correct many faults that might otherwise have escaped |