Excerpt from Elementary Outline of Mental Philosophy, Vol. 3

This work is a compilation of opinions, views, and facts, in Mental Philosophy, deemed of importance, by the writer, to be embodied in an elementary treatise, designed for use in Schools and Academies. In tho preparation of the work, use has been made of Locke, Stewart, Brown, Beattie, Abercrombic, and a number of other works have been more or less consulted, viz: Edwards, Tappan, Day, Upham, Hedge, Jamieson, &c., , &c., , from which many valuable hints and suggestions have been derived.

The writer has sought to employ language capable of being understood by youth of average intellectual endowments, and has, therefore, studied perspicuity more than the graces of a finished style - adopting, in some instances, the statements of the authors consulted, with such variations as seemed requisite to adapt them to the work in hand.

This work has its origin in what is believed to boa necessity for such a treatise. "The proper study of mankind is man" - a truth, the importance of which does not seem to be impressed upon a majority of minds. There appears to be something quite forbidding, to many, if not to most people, in the term Metaphysics, and it is apparently regarded as a profound mysticism, which it is the province of the learned few alone to fathom.

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