!214 Philosophy of the Human Mind, [Chap. XIL 



Price, and lord ]\fonboddo, were amoftg the 

 niost eminent; while the system of the Nomi- 

 72alists was espoused and defended with great 

 ingenuity by Leibnitz, bishop Berkeley, Mr. 

 Hume, Dr. Campbell, professor Stewart, and 

 many others. Mr. Locke, Dr. Reid, and a few 

 .more under the name of Concept ualists, adopted 

 a kind of middle course between these far-famed 

 disputants. 



From a review of the whole of this chapter it 

 appears, that the principal improvements wl)ich 

 have been made in metaphysical science, during 

 the last age, may be summarily presented in the 

 following particulars. 



1. The Inductive Method of inquiry has been in- 

 troduced into this branch of science, more fully, 

 and with greater success, 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 explain these phenomena by hy- 

 potheses and conjectures. 



^. The theory of Perception, which had for so 

 many centuries perplexed and deluded philoso- 

 phers, was, for the first time, during this period, 

 denied and disproved, and a more rational doc- 

 trine introduced in its stead. 



3. The enumeration and arrangement of the 

 intellectual powers have been delivered, by me- 

 taphysicians of this age, from the false, inade- 

 quate, and mischievous simplicity, which were so 

 long and obstinately adhered to by their predeces- 

 sors. The original powers of the mind have been 



