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No. I.

PHILOSOPHICAL THEORIES AND PHI

LOSOPHICAL EXPERIENCE.

No. II.

ON THE CONNEXION BETWEEN PHYSIOLOGY AND INTELLECTUAL

SCIENCE.

No. III.

ON MAN'S POWER OVER HIMSELF TO

PREVENT OR CONTROL

INSANITY.

No. IV.

AN INTRODUCTION TO PRACTICAL

ORGANIC CHEMISTRY.

No. VI.

A BRIEF VIEW OF GREEK PHILOSOPHY

FROM SOCRATES TO THE COMING

OF CHRIST

will be published in August.

Small Books on Great Subjects.

EDITED BY A FEW WELL WISHERS

TO KNOWLEDGE.

N. V.

O vitæ philosophia dux! O virtutis indagatrix, expultrixque vitiorum! quid non modo nos, sed omnino vita hominum sine te esse potuisset? Tu urbes peperisti; tu dissipatos homines in societatem vitæ convocasti: tu eos inter se primò domiciliis, deinde conjugiis, tum literarum et vocum communione junxisti: tu inventrix legum, tu magistra morum et disciplinæ fuisti. Ad te confugimus: a te opem petimus; tibi nos, ut antea magna ex parte, sic nunc penitus totosque tradimus. Est autem unus dies bene et ex preceptis tuis actus, peccanti immortalitati anteponendus. Cujus igitur potius opibus utamur, quam tuis? quæ et vitæ tranquillitatem largita nobis es, et terrorem morti sustulisti.-Cic. Tusc. Quæst. lib. v. c. 2.

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