Chapter XV: Metaphysical

The study of Mental Philosophy teaches us that we are all sensible beings.

The imagination is that part of the mind which looks forward to that which it does not lay its visible eye on.

An energy is perfected when it is tantamount.

The Canons of Induction were invented by Sir Humphrey Davy.

Hamilton made a long and exhausting analysis of sense perception.

Reid considered externality to be something hard.

The theory that intuitive truths are discovered by the light of nature originated from St. John’s interpretation of a passage in the Gospel of Plato.

Man’s moral life first originated in his perception of the world of Nature.

Herodetus tells us that the Egyptians were the first men who had immortal souls.

UNWIN BROTHERS,
THE GRESHAM PRESS,
CHILWORTH AND LONDON.

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