EMBRACING THE THREE DEPARTMENTS OF THE INTELLECT, SENSIBILITIES, AND WILL. BY THOMAS C. UPHAM, D.D., PROFESSOR OF MENTAL AND MORAL PHILOSOPHY IN BOWDOIN COLLEGE; IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I.: THE INTELLECT, WITH AN APPENDIX ON LANGUAGE. NEW YORK: HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS, FRANKLIN SQUARE. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1869, BY THOMAS C. UPHAM, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for the State of Maine. PREFACE. IN preparing the following work, I trust I have felt, in some degree, the responsibility which obviously ought to attach to such an attempt. It has been my object, aided by the views and researches which have characterized the labours of various philosophical sects, to give a condensed, but just and impartial, account of most of the leading principles of Mental Philosophy, so far as they appear to be ascertained and recognised at the present time. The Work, accordingly, is essentially Eclectic in its character; and, as such, can neither incur the discredit, nor claim the honour, of belonging exclusively to any of the great Philosophical Schools, although it does not hesitate to acknowledge its indebtedness to all. In connexion with a cordial application of the Eclectic principle, which has laid open to me the truth wherever it may be found, and under whatever name, I have felt it important to adhere as closely as possible to the rules of Inductive philosophizing, in opposition to that excess of bold conjecture and unchastened speculation which have too often perplexed and deformed mental inquiries. And in doing this I have been obliged to submit my conclusions everywhere to the subjective test of my own mental experience and operations, as developed within the sphere of my personal consciousness. In this way I have hoped, with Divine |