LIBRARY

THE PA.STATI
COLLEGE

PHILOSOPHICAL ESSAYS

BY

DUGALD STEWART, ESQ. F.R.S. EDIN.

EMERITUS PROFESSOR OF MORAL PHILOSOPHY

IN THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH;

HONORARY MEMBER OF THE IMPERIAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AT ST PETERSBURGH;

AND MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY

HELD AT PHILADELPHIA.

EDINBURGH:

Printed by George Ramsay and Company,

FOR WILLIAM CREECH, AND ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE AND COMPANY, EDINBURGH;
T. CADELL AND W. DAVIES, STRAND, JOHN MURRAY, FLEET-STREET,

AND CONSTABLE, HUNTER, PARK, AND HUNTER,

LONDON.

1815

TO

M. PREVOST,

PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN THE ACADEMY OF GENEVA;

FELLOW OF THE ROYAL SOCIETIES OF LONDON

AND OF EDINBURGH;

MEMBER OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF BERLIN;

CORRESPONDENT OF THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF FRANCE, &c. &c. &c.

In the interrupted state of our correspondence at present, you will pardon the liberty I take, in prefixing your name to this Volume. The honour you have lately done me, by your French translation of my book on the Human Mind, and the warm interest you have always taken in the success of that work, since the period of its first appearance, I feel as the most flattering marks of approbation which it has ever received; and they might perhaps have tempted me to indulge, more than becomes me, the vanity of