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and many more, of France; Hollmann, Lossius, 

 Tetens, P'eder, Kruger, and Mendelssohn, of Ger- 

 many; Crousaz^ le Clerc, Bonnet, and several others, 

 of Switzerland; and a much longer list which might 

 be selected from different parts of Europe, are en- 

 titled to respectful distinction *. Indeed, the con- 

 nection is so close between the philosophy of mind 

 and moral science, that every systematic writer on 

 the latter subject has, in a greater or less degree, 

 treated of the former. This will more fully appear 

 when we come, in a future division of the present 

 work, to take a view of the various moral systems 

 which have obtained currency, or excited atten-r 

 tion, in the last age, 



* Of the writings of the greater part of the metaphysicians 

 above-mentionedj which belong to the continent of Europe, espe- 

 cially those of Germany, the author knows little but by report j 

 it will not, therefore, be expected that he should deliver any for-^ 

 mal statements or opinions concerning their doctrines. 



