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THE SENSES

AND

THE MIND.

PHILADELPHIA:
AMERICAN SUNDAY-SCHOOL UNION,
NO. 146 CHESTNUT STREET.

LONDON:
RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY.

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Note.—The American Sunday-school Union have made anarrangement with the London Religious Tract Society, to publish,concurrently with them, such of their valuable works asare best suited to our circulation. In making the selection,reference will be had to the general utility of the volumes, andtheir sound moral tendency. They will occupy a distinct placeon our catalogue, and will constitute a valuable addition to ourstock of books for family and general reading.

As they will be, substantially, reprints of the London edition,the credit of their general character will belong to our Englishbrethren and not to us; and we may add, that the republicationof them, under our joint imprint, involves us in no responsibilitybeyond that of a judicious selection. We cheerfullyavail ourselves of this arrangement for giving wider influenceand value to the labours of a sister institution so catholic inits character and so efficient in its operations as the LondonReligious Tract Society.

☞ The present volume is issued under the above arrangement.

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CONTENTS.

	Page
CHAPTER I.
ON THE GENERAL RELATIONSHIP OF MAN TO THEWORLD AROUND HIM, AND HIS ADAPTATION TO THEPLANET HE TENANTS	5
CHAPTER II.
MAN'S KNOWLEDGE OF THE QUALITIES OF MATTEROBTAINED THROUGH THE MEDIUM OF THE SENSES	45
CHAPTER III.
THE SENSES, AS THE INLETS TO KNOWLEDGE—SIGHTAND HEARING	69
CHAPTER IV.
OBSERVATIONS ON THE AGENCY OF THE SENSES,RELATIVE TO THE UNION BETWEEN MIND ANDMATTER; AND ON THE OCCASIONAL IMPERFECTIONOF THE BODILY ORGANS OF THE SENSES, WITH THERESULTS DEPENDING THEREUPON	153

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