| Description | 473 pages of notes on moral philosophy by an unknown student. Headings include the philosophy of the human mind, the faculties of the human mind, perception, external sense, reflexion consciousness or internal sensation, memory, imagination, dreaming, abstraction, universal grammar, substantives, pronouns, attributives, verbs, adverbs, interjections, connectives, the article or definitive, sublimity, beauty, imitation, harmony, laughter, sympathy, and taste. Part two deals with volition, or man's active powers with headings of priciples of rhetoric, tropes, figures, the use and abuse of tropes and figures, the general nature of poetry, the sound of poetical language, prose writing, civil history, fabulous history, the poetical prose fable, coomon prose, moral philosophy, ethics, economics, the relation of husband and wife, politics (divided into two parts), the principles of government in general inits simple forms, democracy, aristocracy, monarchy, despotism, the constitution of Great Britain, and finally logic. |