"THE prejudice which is commonly entertained against metaphysical speculations seems to arise chiefly from two causes:…"

"Among the various subjects of the inquiry, however, which, inconsequence of the vague use of language, are comprehend…"

"As all our knowledge of the material world is derived from the information of our senses, natural philosophers have, …"

"What we commonly call sensibility, depends, in a great measure, on the power of imagination. Point out two men, any o…"

"Nothing, in truth, has such a tendency to weaken not only the powers of invention, but the intellectual powers in gen…"

"With the respectability of the senses and feelings established, textbooks written by the Scottish philosophers began …"

"What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind."

"Death at the headlands, Hesiod, long ago Gave thee to drink of his unhonied wine: Now Boreas cannot reach thee lying …"

"It is the characteristic of error to be feeble, fluctuating, and anxious: it is the property of truth to be constant …"

"...they make no use of tables; but only of the addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of certain numbers…"