Transcriber's Note.
Apparent typographical errors have been corrected; inconsistencies inthe use of hyphens have been retained.
BY CATHARINE E. BEECHER.
AUTHOR OF "LETTERS TO THE PEOPLE ON HEALTH AND HAPPINESS,"
"PHYSIOLOGY AND CALISTHENICS," "DOMESTIC ECONOMY,"
"DOMESTIC RECEIPT-BOOK," &c., &c.
NEW YORK:
HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS,
FRANKLIN SQUARE.
MONTREAL: BENJAMIN DAWSON.
1857.
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year
one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, by
Harper & Brothers,
in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern District
of New York.
TO
THE PEOPLE,
AS
THE SAFEST AND TRUEST INTERPRETERS OF
THE BIBLE,
AND
TO WOMAN,
AS
THE HEAVEN-APPOINTED EDUCATOR OF MIND,
THIS WORK
Is respectfully Dedicated.
| Page | |
| Introduction | ix |
| Chap. I. The Grand Questions of Life | 9 |
| Chap. II. The Principles of Reason, or Intuitive Truths | 14 |
| Chap. III. Sources of Human Knowledge | 29 |
| Chap. IV. Of the Knowledge gained by Human Experience inregard to the Nature of Mind and of the System of which itis a Part | 32 |
| Chap. V. Knowledge gained by Reason and Experience aloneas to a Future State | 42 |
| Chap. VI. Knowledge gained by Reason and Experience aloneconcerning the Existence, Character, and Designs of theCreator | 47 |
| Chap. VII. Diversities in Systems of Mental Philosophy | 52 |
| Chap. VIII. Classification and Description of the Mental Powers | 59 |
| Chap. IX. Sensation and Perception | 64 |
| Chap. X. Conception and Memory | 79 |
| Chap. XI. Attention and Abstraction | 83 |
| Chap. XII. Association | 93 |