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Natural Philosophy, he will see that the world of mind 

 furnishes him with illustrations perhaps, not less extensive 

 and interesting, pertaining to Mental Philosophy. The 

 mind here has its laboratory within itself, and the dreams 

 of the night, the actions and thoughts of the day, and the 

 opinions and ideas brought to view by the ever fluctua- 

 ting tide of popular opinion, will furnish him with many 

 an interesting illustration of the laws of mind. Even in 

 the sports of childhood, the attentive observer will find 

 much that is interesting, much that elucidate the princi- 

 ples on which the mind of aspiring and intellectual man 

 is wont to act. And many an important principle of the 

 sciences which pass under the high-sounding names of 

 rhetoric, logic, and intellectual philosophy, may receive 

 simple and yet beautiful illustrations from the words and 

 actions of the child, who, as yet, knows nothing of the 

 sounding names' by which those operations are designated 

 in the halls of science. 



If the above remarks are thought to be too great a devi- 

 ation from the professed subject of this Tract, the writer 

 can only reply, that they are such as suggested themselves 

 to his own mind in connexion with the subject, and that 

 he therefore inserted them, hoping that if they were not 

 very closely connected with the subject, yet as they seem- 

 ed to arise from it, they might be useful in exciting atten- 

 tion to the important principle of education which they 

 are intended to enforce. 



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