EDINBURGH T. CONSTABLE, PRINTER TO HER MAJESTY.

OF THE

OF

PHILOSOPHY OF THE HUMAN MIND.

VOL. III.

TO THESE ARE PREFIXED,

INTRODUCTION AND PART FIRST

OF THE

OUTLINES OF MORAL PHILOSOPHY.

WITH MANY NEW AND IMPORTANT ADDITIONS.

BY

DUGALD STEWART, ESQ.

EDITED BY

SIR WILLIAM HAMILTON, BART.

EDINBURGH: THOMAS CONSTABLE AND CO.

LITTLE, BROWN, AND CO., BOSTON, U.S.

MDCCCLIV.

[SUBSECTION] 1. Of the Origin and History of Language,

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[SUBSECT.] 2. The Same continued,

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SECT. III. Of Language considered as an Instrument of Thought,

SECT. IV. Miscellaneous Observations on Language,

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SECT. V. Miscellaneous Observations on Language, continued,

SECT. VI. Miscellaneous Observations on Language, continued.—Conjec-

tures concerning the Origin of the Sanscrit,

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APPENDIX 1.-[Brahminic Forgeries,]

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APPENDIX 2.-[Comparative originality of Greece and India,]

113

CHAPTER II.

OF THE PRINCIPLE OR LAW OF SYMPATHETIC IMITATION.

SECT. 1. Of our Propensity to this Species of Imitation,

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SECT. I. Of the Power of Imitation,

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SECT. III. Of certain Phenomena which seem to be resolvable, in part, into

the foregoing Principles,

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SECT. IV. Of the Advantages resulting from this Constitution of Human

Nature,

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COMPARISON BETWEEN THE FACULTIES OF MAN AND THOSE OF

THE LOWER ANIMALS.

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SECT. 1. [Instinct and Reason contrasted,]

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SECT. 11. [Whether the Faculties of Men and of Brutes differ essentially,

or only in degree,]

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SECT. I. [What particular Faculties belonging to Man are denied to the

Lower Animals,]

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APPENDIX. Some account of JAMES MITCHELL, a Boy born Deaf and

Blind. (From the Transactions of the Royal Society of

Edinburgh,)

[Note.-Wallis, Wilkins, Dalgarno,]

[Some additional Communications relative to JAMES MITCHELL,

received soon after the foregoing Memoir was read in the

Royal Society, and in 1812,]

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