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Excerpt from The Conscience: Lectures on Casuistry; Delivered in the University of Cambridge My Dear Lushington, You kindly sent me a copy of those most interesting Remains of Professor Ferrier, which owe so much to the affectionate diligence and critical judgment of Sir Alexander Grant and yourself. It is not to prove my gratitude for this valuable gift that I take the liberty of dedicating these Lectures to you. Even the pleasure and honour of associating my name with yours might not have tempted me to that vanity. But a writer about the Conscience ought not to let any burthen rest upon his own. After I had delivered these Lectures, I turned to Ferrier's ' Philosophy of Consciousness, ' and found that he had anticipated several of the remarks which I had made on the word I, and on the mischief of smothering it under general phrases such as 'Mind' or 'Reason.' I cannot be sure that sentences of his essays which struck me many years ago when I read them in Blackwood's Magazine may not have fixed themselves in my memory, and that I may not unawares have mingled his thoughts with my own. 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.