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"DISSERTATION, ETC., PART II.

"P. 421. Ces mémoires furent insérés dans ceux pour 1796 et 1797. C'est à ceux pour 1796, que se rapporte la citation des pages 15 et 31 indiquées dans

cette note.

"Pp. 284-286. A l'appui de ces remarques, je ne peux in'empêcher d'ajouter celle-ci : comment est-il arrivé que Leibnitz, armé aussitôt que Newton de l'instrument du calcul, n'ait réellement rien fait en physique?

“P. 356, l. 14. But I must—a life to come. Bien que, j'aie vécu dans un temps, dans un lieu et dans une société, où l'admiration pour Ch. Bonnet étoit une espèce de religion, je n'ai jamais pu goûter beaucoup sa métaphysique. Je dois dire cependant, en réponse à l'accusation dans laquelle il se trouve compris, que ce philosophe a cru, par sa Palingénésie, y avoir pleinement répondu. En ce point encore, il a suivi d'assez près la marche de Leibnitz; mais il mettoit un grand prix au trait qui distinguoit son opinion de celle de son prédécesseur. Et en effet (système pour système) elle est plus spécieuse.

"P. 369, l. 18. His thoughts-attention. J'ai quelque regret à cet éloge, que je ne crois pas mérité. Dès le temps où parut ce volume, sous le titre assez fastueux d'arithmétique morale, m'étant empressé de l'étudier, j'y reconnus un tissu de paralogismes. Il s'y trouve, il est vrai, des assertions incontestables; et comment auroit il pu ne pas énoncer en conclusion des vérités reconnues? Mais ses ridicules expériences à un jeu frivole, et les conséquences absurdes ou mal déduites qu'il en dérive, n'ont aucune valeur. Je supposai, dans le temps, que cet auteur (qui, sans être mathématicien, n'étoit point étranger aux mathématiques) avoit, vers la fin de sa vie, perdu l'habitude du raisonnement ferme, qu'exige le genre d'application qu'il avoit entrepris.

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P. 373, 1. 4. J'éprouve ici deux surprises: 1o pourquoi, si les Anglois manquent du mot ennui, ne le font-ils pas? 2o le mot lassitude est-il donc en Anglois un synonyme d'ennui, chose en François si différente?

"P. 596, 1. 31. Forms. . . Does Kant mean, &c. 1°. Le mot forme, appliqué à la sensibilité, est expliqué, tom. i. p. 25, de la trad. de Born, In viso, &c.; et d'une manière plus générale, par les deux caractères de la connoissance a priori, p. 3, 1. dern. Hinc itaque, &c. Ce mot ne semble pas trop mal imaginé, pour représenter ce qui constitue les lois de notre nature spirituelle, comme Bacon l'emploie à signifier les lois de la nature. A la vérité c'est moins de Bacon que d'Aristote que Kant me semble l'avoir emprunté. Quoiqu'il en soit, se faisant Kantien, il convenoit d'avoir un mot qui s'appliquât aux trois facultés de l'ésprit, pour exprimer ce qui lui est propre, ce qui n'est point acquis par l'expérience. 2o. A la question-Does Kant, &c. ; je répondroit: Kant veut dire que le concept de l'espace est nécessaire, c'est-à-dire, que nous ne pouvons pas le dépouiller; et de plus, qu'il est universel, c.d. qu'il s'applique à tous les phénomènes des sens externes. Et dès qu'une fois il a conçu ce qu'il a conçu, il n'a pas trop mal fait de substituer le mot forme à ce double caractère.-C'est par pure justice, que je fais cette remarque, n'étant pas Kanticn; et en particulier ayant, dès long temps, analysé tout autrement les idées de temps et d'espace.

"P. 429, note 1. La réflexion finale est bien juste. Je l'ai souvent faite sans avoir eu le bonheur de voir l'Ecosse; et j'ai toujours attribué à la philosophie de

cette école une partie des honorables traits que distinguent les sentiments, les mœurs et le caractére de ceux qui en sont le plus rapprochés. Je ne peux parler à la vérité que des personnes et des livres à moi connus.

"P. 446, 1. 5. But to which, &c. J'adopte avec empressement cette opinion. Je l'étends même un peu au delà, et je l'applique volontiers à d'autres écarts. C'est un principe de tolérance."

There is also annexed by Mr. Stewart, to his own copy of the Dissertation, a long extract against chance, from the work of Kepler, De Stella Nova in pede Serpentarii. It was transcribed by the late Dr. Nicoll, from a copy in the Bodleian Library, in 1820. The edition of the book is Prague, 1606, 4to; and the extract commences, p. 140, "Age igitur," and terminates by the words "hoc ordine." The quotation probably had reference, in the author's mind, to the opinion of Diderot and Hume, as stated in Note TT, pp. 586, 587; but, though curious, it has been thought too long to be here appended.-Ed.]

INDEX.

DISSERTATION, (PARTS I. II. III.) from beginning to page 528.
NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS, FROM Page 529 to END.

ADDISON, beneficial influence exerted by
him and his associates, 333-338; on
his accuracy and power of philoso-
phical exposition, 581-584.
Esthetic, in the Kantian Philosophy,
399.

Alembert, (D',) see D'Alembert.
Allamand, whether self-evident proposi-

tions be simple ideas or judgments,
(and his approximation to Reid,) 551,

552.

Allied Sovereigns, their manifesto on
entering Paris in 1815, 525.
American (North) thinkers, 424, 425.
Ancillon, (le père,) praised, 421.
Ancillon, (le fils,) quoted as contrasting
the French and German philosophies,
387, 388.

Arbuthnot, (Dr.,) favourably noticed,
602, et alibi; as one of the earliest
speculators on the doctrince of pro-
babilities, 614.
Aristotle, quoted, 109.

Arnauld, (Anthony,) a practical obser-

ver of men, 153; in his book On
True and False Ideas an opponent
to Malebranche, 162; coincides with
Reid in respect of the Ideal Theory,
162, 163; principal author of the
Port-Royal Logic, 163; the value of
that work, 163, 164; his essential
correspondence with Locke in regard
to the origin of our ideas, 225, 226.
Association of Ideas, great importance
of, in education, 522, alibi.
Atheism, from what philosophical opin-

ions it more immediately results, 376;
directly from the doctrine of Neces-

sity, 376, 574; prevalence of, in Paris
about the middle of last century, 376,
377; absurd imputation of, 378, 379;
irreligion and fanaticism analogous in
their political effects, 379; deification
of Nature reprobated, 592; but to be
cautiously interpreted, 593.
Augustine, on Cicero, 48; maintained
the doctrine of Free-will, 575.

BACON, on his arrangement of the
sciences, 1, seq.; on his Philosophy in
general, 63-78; on his Physics, 64;
on his Psychology, 64-68; two errors
noted, 69; on his Ethical Disquisi-
tions, 69; on his Political Philosophy,
71-75; on his views of Education, 75;
on his Philosophy of Law, 189; his
maxim that Knowledge is Power,
502, 524; testimonies touching, 538-
540.

Barrow, his learning and intellectual
vigour, 90, 91; his rapidity and in-
consistency, 92.

Baxter, (Andrew,) his Inquiry into the
Nature of the Human Soul consider-
ed, 429, 430.

Bayle, refutation of Spinoza, 300; led
the way in the misapplication of the
term Spinozism, 304; on his genius,
influence, and opinions in general,
313-324; specimen of his lives, in
that of Knox, as drawn from Catholic
writers, 580, 581.

Beattie, praised with qualification, 463.
Beaumarchais, quoted as speaking in his

comedy the doctrine of Necessity, 312.

Belsham, quoted in favour of Necessity,

312.

Bentham, quoted on Grotius, Puffen-

dorf, and Burlamaqui, 184; on uni-
versal jurisprudence, 187; on the
authority of our ancestors, 192.
Berkeley, his doctrine of visual dis-
tance, 131, 132; on his doctrine con-
cerning the indissoluble connexion of
our notions of Colour and Extension,
544, 545; specially on his New The-
ory of Vision, and how far original
therein, 340-348; unknown pamphlet
of, entitled "The Theory of Vision,
dc., Vindicated and Explained," 348;
on him, in general, 338-350; his cha-
racter and accomplishments, 339;
gave popularity to metaphysical pur-
suits which they had never possessed
in England, 339; on his doctrine
touching the objects of general terms,
349; on his argument against the
existence of the material world, 349;
on the intention and defect of his
Idealism, 350, 351.

Berlin Academy, 421.
Bernouilli, (John,) on the Law of Con-
tinuity, 275, 563, 564.
Blair, (Rev. Dr.,) his criticism of Addi-
son considered, 581-583.
Bodinus, his resemblance to Bacon, 53,
55; his anticipation of Montesquieu,
53, 536; liberality of his political
principles, 54, 55; his belief in witch-
craft and astrology, only the usual
belief of the greatest thinkers before
and after him, as Melanchthon, Eras-
mus, Luther, Kepler, Tycho Brahe,
&c., 56, 57.

Bonald, (M. de,) quoted touching Kant,
415; holds, that philosophy is as yet
only in expectation, 481.
Bondwill, see Necessity.
Bonnet, (Charles,) a follower of Leib-
nitz, 265; in favour of the Law of
Continuity, 277, 278; quoted as an
advocate of Necessity, 308, 309; his
theory of vibrations in the nerves,
353, 354; compared with Hartley
generally, 355; his coincidence with
Condillac in the hypothesis of an
animated statue, 359; remark on, by
Prévost, 616.

Boscovich, praised, 423, 424; refuta-

tion of his mathematical argument
against the progress of mankind, 498,
499; on the Law of Continuity, 561.
Breadthless lines as realized to sense, ix.
Brown, (Dr. Thomas,) notice of, 613.

Buchanan, his political doctrine, 61, 62.
Budæus, 58.

Buffier, on the Secondary Qualities of
matter, 127.

Buffon, on his contributions to ineta-
physical science, his merits and de-
merits, 368-370; notice of, by Pré-
vost, 616.

Buhle, his blunders, 600, 601.
Burnet, (of Kemney,) noticed, 602.
Butler, (Bishop,) notice of, in relation to
Hume, 453, 454; was the first to
detect the dangerous consequences
from Locke's account of the origin of
our ideas, if literally interpreted, 454,
455; on the art of printing, 511.

CALVIN, on usury, 30, 503; on some
theological tenets of, 40; opinion on
the Popes, 44; his participation in the
judicial murder of Servetus, 54.
Campanella, an original speculator, no-
tice of, 50, seq.

Campbell, (Principal,) on his Nomen-
clature of the Sciences, 17; praised
as a metaphysician, 460, 463, 467.
Cape of Good Hope, (passage to India
by,) 34.

Carmichael, (Professor Gershom,) quot-
ed, on Grotius and Puffendorf, 177,
178.

Cartes, (Des,) see Descartes.
Cause and Effect, according to Kant,
402, seq.; to Price, 405; to Cud-
worth, 406; notion of an efficient
cause implies the notion of mind,
573, 608.
Character, (varieties of intellectual,)
works delineating, common in France,
382.

Charron, friend of Montaigne, 105; how
he has attempted to supply an anti-
dote to Montaigne's scepticism, 106;
character of his work On Wisdom,
106.

Chatelet, (Madame du,) notice of her
works and opinions, 385.
Cicero, 48.

Clarendon, (Earl of,) his testimonies as
to Hobbes, 541.

Clarke, (Dr. Samuel,) on his opinions
in general, 287-298; relation to New-
ton, 287, 288; on his controversy
with Leibnitz, 288; on Space and
Time, Immensity and Eternity, 291-
294; his polemic as an advocate of
Free-will, 295, seq.; his controversy
with Collins on this question, 306,

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