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into this branch of science, more fully and with greater suc- 

 cess than ever before. In other words, some philosophers of 

 the last age have taught us, for the first time, to study the 

 human mind by ascertaining facts, and carefully observing 

 and arranging its phenomena, without endeavouring to ex- 

 plain these phenomena by hypotheses and conjectures. 



2. The theory of Perception, which had, for so many 

 centuries, perplexed and deluded philosophers, was, for the 

 £rst time, during this period, denied and disproved, and a 

 more rational doctrine introduced in its stead. 



3. The enumeration and arrangement of the intellectual 

 powers have been delivered, by metaphysicians of this age, 

 from the false, inadequate, and mischievous simplicity, which 

 were so long and obstinately adhered to by their predecessors. 

 The original powers of the mind have been shown to be more 

 numerous than they were before supposed ; and the plan of 

 studying them in detail, rather than through the medium of a 

 set of deceptive systematic rules, exhibited and recommended. 



4. The metaphysical writings of the eighteenth century 

 are, in general, more clear, popular and intelligible than 

 those of any former age. To this some of the most erroneous 

 writers of the age have, by their acuteness, contributed. 

 Even Berkeley and Hume have thus indirectly subserved 

 the interests of metaphysical science. 



NOTES ON CHAPTER XIII. 



Revival of Classic Literature in Britain, p. 37. 



WITHIN the last fifteen or twenty years of the eighteenth 

 century, classic literature, and especially the study of the 

 Greek language, has, in some degree, revived in Great-Bri- 

 tain. From the time in which Barnes, Bentley, and 

 Clarke flourished, till the period above-mentioned, their 

 country could boast of few acquisitions in this department of 

 literature. But towards the close of the century, rhe labours 

 of Burney, Wakefield, Parr, and Porson, not to men- 

 tion several others, who might with propriety be introduced 

 into the same list, revived the taste for this kind of learning 

 and will probably produce still more extensive effects. 



