f§ Philosophy of the Human Mind, 



James Harris, in his Hermes, and in his Philoso* 

 pkical Arrangements, strove, with equal zeal, nearly 

 about the same time, to revive the philosophy of 

 Aristotle, but without so strangely distorting its 

 features, or encumbering it with such heterogene- 

 ous and whimsical additions. 



Among the new metaphysical theorists of the 

 age, it would be improper to pass in silence the ce- 

 lebrated Immaxuel Kant, Professor at Koenings- 

 berg, in Prussia. This gentleman, about the year 

 1781, first published a system of metaphysics and 

 moral philosophy, which has been ever since gain- 

 ing ground among the literati of Germany, a:":- , is 

 now much in vogue in that country. Professor 

 Kant, we are told, was led to the train of think- 

 ing, which ripened in his mind into the system 

 which bears his name, by the perusal of Hume's 

 essay on the idea of necessary connection; and of 

 Priestley's reply to Retd, Beat tie, and Oswald/ 

 But from whatever source his ideas are derived, he 

 has formed them into a fabric, which is extolled 

 by his adherents as one ot the most sublime efforts 

 of human genius, and as ranking among the most 

 important improvements ever made in science. If 

 we may believe the extravagant panegyrics of these 

 enthusiastic disciples, he has more successfully ex- 

 plored the darkest recesses of the human mind 

 than any individual amongst all his illustrious pre- 

 nd his writings contain adevelopement 

 of precisely those truths after which mankind have 

 been seeking for centuries in vain. 



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::on, cloathing, fire, or language ; that his best and only proper food 

 is raw vegetables; that there hav. .:s of two and three, and in 



some ::.- ol ;lght and nine times the height cf ordinary men in these 



cegeni.- '.ere are now hot . and whole 



I who have but one leg ; that in Ethiopia there are men who have 

 their eyes in their nd others v. fa '.y one eye, and that in 



their forehead!! ! fcc 



f & ? :. by J. C. Abelung: translated, 



with additions, by A.E. M. WiLuci:, M, D. Load. Svo. 1798. 



