AN ANALYSIS OF Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding, IN THE FORM OF QUESTION AND ANSWER. QUESTIONS WITH NOTES, APPENDIX, AND A COLLECTION OF IN THE UNIVERSITY OF DUBLIN. WILLIAM MCGEE, 18 NASSAU STREET, LONDON MESSRS. SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, AND Co. PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. THE favourable reception, and rapid sale, which the First Edition has met with, have induced me to publish a Second Edition. While keeping the pages of the Analysis within reasonable limits, I have made some slight changes in the body of the work, considerably enlarged the notes, and added a few questions proposed in more recent years. I am glad that the readers of the Essay have found my book to answer the purpose for which it was designed; and hope that those who, to a greater or less extent, are desirous of investigating the force and value of Locke's conclusions in Mental Philosophy, will derive some assistance from the new references, quotations, and explanations, which I have given. CAPPOQUIN, September, 1878. PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION. THE want of a Systematic Analysis of Locke's Essay has long been felt by the undergraduates of our University. From time to time various contractions have appeared, but they were all more or less incapable of supplying the deficiency which they were manifestly intended to do. It is true that some valuable abridgments have been published, foremost among which may be mentioned that of Dr. Murray; but unfortunately they were, from the nature of the case, too voluminous to suit either the taste or inclination of ordinary students, who, failing to procure some other Contraction of the Essay, were obliged to have recourse to it in its original form. Having undertaken the present work at the request of some of the Fellows of Trinity College, I began it with a determination to proceed on quite a different plan from that adopted in any of the previous Analyses, all of which, I am informed, are now out of print. My design has been to give Locke's arguments in a concise and regular form without any unnecessary abbreviation-to append notes which would show the |