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tinguished metaphysicians, especially in Great- 

 Britain. Among the most able of these is Dr. 

 Dugald Stewart, Professor of Moral Philosophy 

 in the University of Glasgow. It was before re- 

 marked, that Dr. Reid, after demolishing the 

 doctrines of his predecessors, and laying the foun- 

 dation of a new system, forbore to undertake the 

 erection of an improved superstructure on this ba- 

 sis. Professor Stewart, though far from having, 

 in his own estimation, completed such a super- 

 structure, is yet considered as having done some- 

 thing towards it, and as having rendered substan- 

 tial service to the philosophy of mind. He has 

 carried some of his doctrines to a greater length 

 than they were carried by his great predecessor, 

 and in some important particulars he dissents from 

 that able pneumatologist/ 



The principles of Dr. Reid have also been 

 adopted, and perspicuously displayed by Dr. 

 Beattie, in his Essay on Truth, and other publi- 

 cations; by Dr. Oswald, in his Appeal to Com- 

 mon Sense in Behalf of Religion ; by Lord Kaims, 

 in his Sketches of the History of Man; by Dr. A. 

 Ferguson, in his Principles of Moral and Political 

 Science; and by some other respectable writers. 



A system of pneumatology, partly belonging to 

 the eighteenth century, from the noise which it 

 made, and the speculations which it excited dur- 

 ing that period, is that of the celebrated Leibnitz, 

 a philosopher of Germany, 2 ' who was mentioned 



b It is not easy, in this place, to point out the particulars in which Dr. 

 Stewart differs from Dr. Reid. The reader will receive satisfactory 

 information on this subject by looking into those chapters in Stewart's 

 Elements of the Philosophy of the Mind, which treat of Conception, Abstraction, 

 and Association. 



i In chronological strictness, the system of Leibnitz ought to have 

 been noticed before those of Berkeley, Hume, and Reid; but as the 

 latter stood in close connection with the doctrines of Malebranche, and 

 as it did not appear expedient to interrupt the course of narration respect- 

 ing them, it has been judged proper to introduce a brief account of the doc- 



