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sity of Cambridge; and received orders in the Church of 

 England about the year 1698. In 1706 he published his 

 letter to Dodwell, on the immortality of the soul; a philo- 

 sophical and learned discourse. In 1715 he maintained a 

 controversy with Leibnitz, which has been much celebrated ; 

 and in 1717 he published remarks upon Collins's Philoso- 

 phical Inquiry concerning Human Liberty. His other works 

 are numerous, and indicate great acuteness, learning, and 

 critical skill. He died in 1729. Dr. Clarke is certainly 

 entitled to a place among the greatest men of the eighteenth 

 century. 



Price, p. 33. 



Richard Price, D. D. was born in Wales, about the 

 year 1725. He was an eminent dissenting minister, no less 

 distinguished for the amiableness of his private character than 

 for his great talents, and his laudable exertions in the cause 

 of human happiness. He published his Review of the prin- 

 cipal Questions and Difficidties in Morals, &c. in 1758 ; his 

 Observations on Reversionary Payments, &c. in 1771 ; and 

 A free Discussion of the Doctrines of Materialism and Phi- 

 losophical Necessity, with Dr. Priestley, in 1778. These 

 are his most celebrated works. He died in 1791. 



Watts, p. 33. 



Isaac Watts, D. D. was born at Southampton, in South- 

 Britain, in 1674. The works of this great and good man are 

 numerous and excellent. His Treatise on Logic, his Treatise 

 on the Improvement of the Mind, and his Philosophical Es- 

 says, contain the chief of what he wrote on metaphysical sub- 

 jects. He entered on the work of the Gospel ministry about 

 the year 1 700 ; received the degree of D. D. from the Uni- 

 versities of Edinburgh and Aberdeen, in 1723; and died in 

 1741. 



Controversy between Nominalists and Realists, p. 33. 



This controversy is not properly stated in the note in the 

 above-mentioned page. The following view of the subject 

 is, it is believed, more correct, and will, perhaps, be more 

 intelligible to the reader. — The Realists supposed that there 

 are certain substantial forms or essences, corresponding to ge- 



