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Excerpt from Elements of Psychology: Included in a Critical Examination of Locke's Essay on the Human Understanding It may be proper to say a few words in regard to the portion of M.Cousin's Lectures which makes the body of this work, and the form in which it is here presented to the public. In the year 1829, M.Cousin delivered a course of Lectures, which was published in two volumes octavo, under the title of History of Philosophy in the Eighteenth Century. Of this course, the second volume contains an extended critical analysis of Locke's Essay on the Human Understanding. The Lectures, from the 16th to the 25th inclusive, are taken up with this analysis. These are the Lectures of which a translation is here given to the public. This examination of the Essay on the Human Understanding, is pronounced, by the writer of the article on the "Philosophy of Perception," in the Edinburgh Review for October 1830, No.103, Art. IX., p.191, to be "the most important work on Locke since the Nouveaux Essais of Leibnitz" By those who are acquainted with the article referred to, - remarkable alike for philosophical learning, and ability of the very first order, - a higher authority cannot well be imagined. - Of this same work, the accomplished translator of Cousin's "Introduction to the History of Philosophy," likewise remarks, that it "must he acknowledged to be perhaps the greatest master-piece of philosophical criticism ever exhibited to the public." The Nouveaux Essais of Leibnitz is, unquestionably, an admirable work on Locke; but it is rarely to be met with, and is, besides, impaired by the spirit of a system at the present day abandoned. Reid and Kant have also incidentally given criticisms of Locke, on many important points. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.