Lectures on the Philosophy of the Human Mind, Vol. 1 of 3 (Classic Reprint)

Book excerpt: Excerpt from Lectures on the Philosophy of the Human Mind, Vol. 1 of 3 The subject on which we are about to enter, and which is to engage, I trust, a considerable portion of your attention for many months, is the Philosophy of the Human Mind, - not that speculative and passive philosophy only, which inquires into the nature of our intellectual part, and the mysterious connexion of this with the body which it animates, but that practical science, which relates to the duties, and the hopes, and the great destiny of man, and which, even in analyzing the powers of his understanding, and tracing all the various modifications of which it is individually susceptible, views it chiefly as ageneral instrument of good - an instrument by which he may have the dignity of co-operating with his beneficent Creator, by Spreading to others the knowledge, and virtue, and happiness, which he is qualified at once to enjoy, and to diffuse. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.