Catalogues. Collections relating to the Sciences. Collections of the works of single authors. Mathematics in general. Of Quantity and Numbers, or Algebra. Proportions. Fractions. General Theories. Impossible Quantities. Equations. Equations with radical Quantities. Limits of Equations. Machines for Equations. Arithmetic. Logarithms. Tables of Logarithms. Geometry. Mensuration. Trigonometry. Comparison of variable Quantities. Z Z Natural History in general. Philosophy of Mineralogy. Systems. Vegetable Anatomy. Zoology. Systems. Physiology. Cultivation of Natural Productions, including Agriculture. This affords but a faint outline of the Catalogue. Mental Science. This department comprehends, 1st, Philosophy of the Human Mind. To proceed far in the study of Method, it will be proper to recommend-Crousaz, Watts, Le Clerc, Wolfius, and Locke's Essay on the Human Understanding; and if there be any necessity of adding the Peripatetic Logic, which has been perhaps condemned without a candid trial, it will be convenient to proceed to Sanderson, Wallis, Crackenthorpe, and Aristotle. For a plain and practical Manual, nothing can be better than a small work in French, taken from Du Marsais. LOGIC. The logic which for so many ages kept possession of the schools, has at last been condemned as a mere art of wrangling, of very little use in the pursuit of truth; and late writers have contented themselves with giving an account of the operations of the mind, marking the various stages of her progress, and giving some general rules for the regulation of her conduct. This work, however laborious, has yet been fruitless, if there be truth in an observation very frequently made, that logicians out of the school do not reason better than men unassisted by those lights which their science is supposed to bestow. It is not to be doubted but that logicians may be sometimes overborne by their passions, or blinded by their prejudices; and that a man may reason ill, as he may act ill, not because he does not know what is right, but because he does not regard it; yet it is no more the fault of his art that it does not direct him when his attention is withdrawn from it, than it is the defect of his sight that he misses his way when he shuts his eyes. Against this cause of error there is no provision to be made, otherwise than by inculcating the value of truth and the necessity of conquering the passions. But logic may likewise fail to produce its effects upon common occasions, for want of being frequently and familiarly applied, till its precepts may direct the mind imperceptibly, as the fingers of a musician are regulated by his knowledge of the tune. This readiness of recollection is only to be procured by frequent impression, and therefore it will be proper to take frequent occasion in the most easy and familiar conversation, to observe when its rules are preserved and when they are broken, and that afterwards he read no authors without taking account of every remarkable exemplification or breach of the laws of reasoning. Dr. Johnson. WATTS. The Improvement of the Mind, by Dr. Watts, octavo. Logic, by the same author, octavo, 7s, duodecimo, 4s. WALLIS. Logic, duodecimo. Collard's Praxis of Logic is a convenient substitute for the large treatises of Watts and Duncan. SMART. Practical Logic, by B. H. Smart, duodecimo, 38 6d. STEWART. Philosophy of the Human Mind, by Dugald Stewart, 2 vols. octavo, 17 8s. A third volume of this excellent work is now published. REID. Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man, by Dr. Reid, octavo, 8s. This book is usually read at Cambridge after Locke. Essays on the Mind, 3 vols. octavo, 17 11s 6d. One thing which raises Mr. Stewart above all mental philosophers, is the spirit of philanthropy which breathes in every line. He most unostentatiously, we had almost said unconsciously, discusses the powers of mind as if he was laying a foundation for the philosophy of virtue; and his object seems to be to acquire a knowledge of the intellect of human creatures, as the means of making them happier. This is a point of view in which no French philosopher can be compared with him. Reid has so admirably fixed the boundaries of those regions into which the human mind may penetrate with reasonable expectation of advantage, and shown the futility of going beyond those limits, that he might be of the greatest use in confining persons to attainable inquiries, and preventing them from wandering where there is nothing to guide, and nothing to convince them. LOCKE. Essay on the Human Understanding, by John Locke, 2 vols. octavo, 14s. BROWN. Conduct of the Understanding, octavo, 7s. The Philosophy of the Human Mind, second edition, 4 vols. octavo, 21 12s 6d. BEATTIE. An Essay on Truth, by Dr. Beattie, duodecimo, 5s. The Elements of Moral Science, 2 vols. octavo, 16s. ALISON. Essays on the Nature and Principles of Taste, by the Rev. Archibald Alison, 2 vols. octavo, 1l ls. CHAPONE, Letters on the Improvement of the Mind, royal 18mo. by Mrs. Chapone, 4s. SMITH. The Theory of Moral Sentiments, by Adam Smith, octavo, 12s. BURKE. On the Sublime and Beautiful, by the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, octavo, 7s. MASON. A Treatise upon Self Knowledge, by the Rev. G. Mason, foolscap octavo, 6s. GREY. Memoria Technica, or a Method of Artificial Memory, by Dr. Grey, new edition, duodecimo, 5s, with Lowe's Mnemonics. |