Format:
Online-Ressource (x, 348 p.)
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19 cm. (12mo)
Content:
"The study of the Mindits nature, its capacity, its phenomena, and the full and rational assurance of its immortal duration and eternal happiness or misery after all the elements of the present body are rendered back to inorganic matteris one of the most magnificent and important, and at the same time, in its own nature, one of the most easy and inviting departments in the whole field of human knowledge. Yet, somehow or other, it happens that of all subjects this is the one upon which even the majority of those who are not unlearned upon other matters, have the least and the most erroneous information. The unlearned are, to a man, Fatalists, and acquiesce in the doom which they fancy to be prepared for them, and content themselves in that state of ignorance, which they firmly believe has been meted out to them by a decree of Heaven. The learned, on the other hand, I have found to be, for the most part, Nominalists, following the doctrines of that sect, from the Malmsbury philosopher to Professor Stewart,though there are a few who take the middle course of Locke and Reid, and are Realists and Nominalists by turns, just as these two very eminent men agree the most in reality when they are at absolute variance in words. Circumstances and associations, the details of which would have no interest to the reader, induced, nay, almost (in self-defence) compelled me to attend closely to this subject for a number of years; and it has occurred to me that a simple book, embodying some of the more important truths, in a popular form, and without any of the pretence of philosophy, might be readable, and if readable, useful. In this volume I have, in part, put this design in execution, and have done my best to produce a book which any body can read and may understand. I have endeavoured to set forth only such truths as can be demonstratively felt by any reader who will reflect ever so little on what is read"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2009 APA, all rights reserved)
Note:
Electronic reproduction; Washington, D.C; American Psychological Association; 2009; Available via World Wide Web; Access limited by licensing agreement; s2009 dcunns
Language:
English
