34 Philosophy of the Human Mind. 



new modifications, through the whole of the last 

 century. And though still far from being con- 

 cluded, yet probably there was never so much 

 light thrown on the question in any preceding pe- 

 riod. Of those who maintained the doctrine of 

 the Realists, it is believed that Mr. Harris, Dr. 

 Price, and Lord Monboddo Were among the most 

 eminent ; while the system of the Nominalists was 

 espoused and defended, with great ingenuity, by 

 Bishop Berkeley, Mr. Hume, Dr. CAMPBELL,Pro- 

 fessor Stewart, and many others. Mr. Locke* 

 Dr. Reid, and a few more under the name of Con- 

 ceptualists, adopted a kind of middle course be- 

 tween these far-famed disputants. 



Besides the writers on the general philosophy of 

 mind, or on particular parts of this science, whose 

 names have been mentioned in the foregoing pages, 

 a number of others are entitled to notice in the 

 metaphysical history of the last age, as having ei- 

 ther written professedly on the subject, or inter- 

 woven much matter relating to the philosophy 

 of mind in the discussion of theological, moral, 

 and literary subjects. Among these Bishop But- 

 ler, Dr. Hutcheson, Mr. Grove, Dr. Camp- 

 bell, Dr. A. Smith, Mr. Tucker/ and Mr. Al- 

 lison, of Great-Britain; Beausobre, Condillac, 

 and many more, of France; Lossius, Tetens, Fe- 

 der, Kruger, and Mendlesshom, of Germany; 

 Crouzaz, LeClerc, Bonnet, and several others, 

 of Geneva; and a much longer list which might 



i See The Light of Nature Pursued, by Edward Search, Esq. 7 vols. 

 8vo. 1768, 1778. The real author of this work was Abraham Tucker, 

 Esquire. It contains much new, curious and highly interesting dicussioti 

 on metaphysical and moral subjects. Of Mr. Tucker, Dr. Paley, in the 

 preface to his Moral and Political Philosophy, speaks in the following terms : 

 " I have found in this writer more original thinking and observation upon 

 the several subjects that he has taken in hand, than in any other, not to 

 say, than in all others put together. His talent for illustration is unri- 

 valled. But his thoughts are diffused through a long, various, and irregu- 

 lar work." « 



