PROFESSOR OF MORAL PHILOSOPHY AND LOGIC IN THE MARISCHAL COLLEGE, AND UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. 1. THE SECOND EDITION. EDINBURGH, PRINTED FOR WILLIAM CREECH; AND T. CADELL AND W. DAVIES, LONDON. ADVERTISEMENT. THESE Volumes contain an Abridgement, and for the most part a very brief one, of a series of Discourses, delivered in Marischal College, on Moral Philosophy and Logic. It has long been the Author's practice, with a view to assist the memory of his hearers, to make them write Notes of each discourse. But as that was necessarily done in haste, inaccuracy was unavoidable and many of them have expressed their wishes that he would put it in their power to procure correct copies of the whole Summary, a little enlarged in the F217935 vi doctrinal parts, and with the addition of a few illustrative examples. This is one of his motives to the present publication; which some are pleased to think has been too long delayed: and which is become the more excusable, as hundreds of manuscript copies of the Notes, many of them incomplete as well as incorrect, are now extant; and as several extracts from them have got, he knows not how, into print, with more imperfections, it may be, than could reasonably be imputed to the author. He begs leave to add, as another reason for making these papers public, that he has been advised to it by many persons, whose judgment and love of good learning entitle them at all times to his most respectful attention. It will no doubt be observed, that some of the following topics, though brevity has been aimed at in all, are treated more compendiously than others. This could, he thinks, be accounted for; but not without |