

LECTURES 



ON I ; ;, ; ^ 



EXPERIMENTAL PHILOSOPHY, fcc, , :. 



LECTURE I. 



EXPERIMENTAL PHILOSOPHY. 



GENERAL OBJECTS AND PRINCIPLES. 



You are, I presume, desirous, my young friends, 

 of acquiring knowledge, of satisfying your cu- 

 riosity, of storing your minds with useful ideas, 

 of fitting yourselves for company and conversa- 

 tion, and of enabling yourselves to proceed gra- 

 dually in the paths of science, till you arrive at 

 distinction and eminence. 



Suffer me to ask you, if you do not feel a 

 strong curiosity to know the nature of all those 

 objects that you see around you ; to be informed 

 of the causes of those astonishing changes which 

 you observe every day produce. You see the 

 sun, which apparently rises every morning to 

 give light and heat to the world. You will be 

 surprised to be told, that it is not the sun that 

 moves upon these occasions, but it is the earth 



VOL. i. B 



