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DISSERTiTIONS

LEADING PHILOSOPHICAL TOPICS

ALEXANDER BAIN,^^.D.

EMERITUS PROFESSOR OP LOGIC,

UNIVERSITY OP ABBRDEBM

{Mainly Reprints from Mind)

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EXPLANATOEY NOTE BY THE AUTHOE.

I HAVE here reproduced in full, and with almost no change, the principal articles to which reference was made in the Preface to the Fourth Edition of The Emotions and the Will,

They contain, with some little diflFerence in statement, my latest views on such of those debated issues as were not adequately expounded or not given in final shape in either of my two volumes on Psychology.

Certain of the articles here reproduced do not essentially belong to the Psychology of the last volume, and are not in the list referred to in the Addenda to the Fourth Edition. Perhaps, the most distinctive of these last is that entitled MiWs Theon^ of the Syllogism.

To the articles reproduced from Mind^ I have added a paper *' On the Pressure of Examinations," part of which appeared in Criticisms of a Protest against Examinations, issued by Mr. Auberon Herbert, in 1888. This, though not directly psychological, is germane to the subject, and may have interest for the student of philosophy.

The remaining Essay, on '' The Scope of Anthropology and its Relation to the Science of Mind," was a paper read to the British Association, at the Aberdeen Meeting, in 1885.

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Being now debarred from the philosophical arena by failure of health, I do not come under any pledge to vindicate whatever either critic or opponent may think fit to challenge or impugn, nor to reconcile seeming inconsistencies, in these reprints. They are avowedly my sole amends for inability to execute that thorough revision of The Emotions and the Will which, although at one time resolved upon, had to be abandoned for the reasons given in the Preface to the Fourth Edition.

Aberdeen, Janua/ry, 1903.