Excerpt from A System of Intellectual Philosophy

Materialism, and in the various forms of Idealism, as distin guished from the true system. This he has attempted, and, as it appears to him, accomplished, in the chapter on Miscellane ous topics. The improvements made, in presenting the topic last named, will be appreciated, we think, by all who carefully read the chapter in which they appear. It has been the aim of the author to give to the public a work, on this great sci ence, which should meet the fundamental philosophic wants of the age. As such an attempt, he commends his production to the careful study of all who would understand this science.

I close with a suggestion to teachers who may introdu this work to their pupils as a text-book. No system of ques tious is here proposed. Each topic has a heading, however, which gives the subject-matter therein developed. My own method of teaching has always been, to read to the class this heading, and then require the student to state, in his own words, the subject-matter contained in the topic referred to. Two benefits result to the pupil by this mode of teaching: 1. He is made to understand the subject much better than he can by any system of questions. 2. He acquires the import ant habit of first forming distinct conceptions of a subject be fore speaking, and then of clothing his thoughts in appropriate language. Much higher and more perfect forms of mental discipline are acquired by this mode of teaching, than by any other which we have ever tried.

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