TABLE OF CONTENTS.

VOLUME I.

SERIES I.

NATURE OF THE MATERIAL WORLD; AND THE SCALE OF

UNORGANIZED AND ORGANIZED TRIBES THAT ISSUE

FROM IT.

Lect.

I. On Matter, and a Material World............

II. On the Elementary and Constituent Princi-

ciples of Things.................

III. The Subject continued.....

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1

27

51

76

97

121

146

IV. On the Properties of Matter, essential and

peculiar.........

V. The Subject continued.....

VI. On Geology.........

VII. The Subject continued.....

VIII. On Organized Bodies, and the Structure of

Plants compared with that of Animals... 171 ·

IX. On the general Analogy of Animal and Ve-

getable Life........

206

X. On the Principles of Life, Irritability, and

muscular Motion.........

233

XI. On the Bones, Cartilages, Teeth, Hair,

Wool, Silk, Feathers, and other hard or

solid Parts of the Animal Frame......... 267

Lect.

XII. On the Digestive Function, and the Organs

contributory to it; the different Kinds of

Food employed by different Animals; and

the Continuance of Life through long

Periods of fasting...........

XIII. On the Circulation of the Blood, Respir-

ation, and Animalization........

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305

......... 343

XIV. On the Processes of Assimilation and Nu-

trition; and the interesting Effects to

which they lead.........................

384

XV. On the External Senses of Animals........... 408

NATURE OF THE

VOLUME II.

SERIES II.

ANIMATE WORLD; ITS PECULIAR

POWERS, AND EXTERNAL RELATIONS; MEANS OF COM-
MUNICATING IDEAS; FORMATION OF SOCIETY.

Lect.

I. On Zoological Systems, and the distinctive

Characters of Animals.....

II. The Subject continued........

.......

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1

32

III. On the Varieties of the Human Race...... 75

IV. On Instinct.......

114

V. On the distinguishing Characters of Instinct,

Sensation, and Intelligence.................. 142

VI. On Sympathy and Fascination....................................
.. 174
VII. On Sleep, Dreaming, Revery, and Trance;

Sleep-walking, and Sleep-talking.......................... 208

Lect.

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VIII. On Voice and Language; Vocal Imitations,
and Ventriloquism.......

......... ....

IX. On natural and inarticulate Language, or
that of Animals; artificial and articulate
Language, or that of Man.......

X. On legible Language, imitative and symbo-
lical......

.........

243

267

301

XI. On the literary Education of former Times;
and especially that of Greece and Rome 345
XII. On the Dark or Middle Ages.......... 375
XIII. On the Revival of Literature...

413

VOLUME III.

'SERIES III.

NATURE OF THE MIND: ITS GENERAL FACULTIES AND

Lect.

FURNITURE.

I. On Materialism and Immaterialism...........

II. On the Nature and Duration of the Soul, as

explained by popular Tradition; by

various Schools of Philosophy; and by

Revelation...........

III. On Human Understanding......................

IV. The Subject continued.........

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1

33

61

86

V. On Ancient and Modern Sceptics............ 116

VI. On the Hypothesis of Common Sense...... 156

VII. On Human Happiness..

VIII. On the general Faculties and Free-agency

...

....... 199

of the Mind......................

227

Lect.

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IX. On the Origin, Connexion, and Character of

the Passions.................

254

XII. On Pathognomy, or the Expression of the
Passions.......

XIII. On Physiognomy and Craniognomy; or the

312

317

Expression of the Temper and Disposition 339
XIV. On the Language of the Passions......................... 373
XV. On Taste, Genius, and Imagination........... 405

ERRATA.

VOL. I.

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Page 58. line 9. from bottom,

VOL. II.

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63. line 18. from bottom,} for Gayleureuth read Gaylenreuth.

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THE

BOOK OF NATURE.

SERIES I.

LECTURE I.

ON MATTER, AND A MATERIAL WORLD.

In the comprehensive range of science proposed to be treated of in the SURREY INSTITUTION, the department to which I shall have the honour of beseeching your attention will be that of NATURAL PHILOSOPHY, or PHYSICS, in the most extensive sense of these terms: that branch of science which makes use of the individual principles and discoveries of every other branch within the range of nature, as the architect makes use of the bricks, the mortar, the wood, and the marble of different artizans, and builds up the whole into a perfect edifice; which takes a bird's eye view, as it were, of a picturesque and spreading landscape from some commanding eminence; and, without having laboured in the details of arranging the ground, of cultivating the soil, of planting the woods, of winding the rivers, of enriching the scenery with flocks, herds, bridges, and buildings, points out the general connexion