TABLE OF CONTENTS.

VOLUME I.

SERIES I.

NATURE OF THE MATERIAL WORLD; AND THE SCALE OF

UNORGANIZED AND ORGANIZED TRIBES THAT

ISSUE

FROM IT.

Lect.

I. On Matter, and a Material World

II. On the Elementary and Constituent Prin-

ciples of Things

III. The Subject continued

IV. On the Properties of Matter, essential and

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46

VII. The Subject continued

VIII. On Organized Bodies, and the Structure of

Plants compared with that of Animals

152

IX. On the general Analogy of Vegetable and

Animal Life

184

X. On the Principle of Life, Irritability, and

muscular Motion

208

XI. On the Bones, Cartilages, Teeth, Articula-

tion, Integumentation, Hair, Wool, Silk,

Lect.

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Feathers, and other hard or solid Parts of

the Animal Frame

XII. On the Digestive Function, and the Organs

contributory to it; the different Kinds of

Food employed by different Animals; and

the Continuance of Life through long

Periods of fasting

XIII. On the Circulation of the Blood, Respiration,

and Animalization

XIV. On the Processes of Assimilation and Nu-

trition;

and the curious Effects to which

they lead

XV. On the External Senses of Animals

238

271

304

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340

361

NATURE OF THE

VOLUME II.

SERIES II.

ANIMATE WORLD; ITS PECULIAR

POWERS, AND EXTERNAL RELATIONS; MEANS OF COM-

MUNICATING IDEAS; FORMATION OF SOCIETY.

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187

218

Lect.

VII. On Sleep, Dreaming, Revery, and Trance;
Sleep-walking, and Sleep-talking

VIII. On Voice and Language; Vocal Imitation,
and Ventriloquism-

IX. On natural and inarticulate Language, or
that of Animals; artificial and articulate
Language, or that of Man

X. On legible Language, imitative and sym-
bolical

XI. On the literary Education of former Times;

and especially that of Greece and Rome

XII. On the Dark or Middle Ages

XIII. On the Revival of Literature

VOLUME III.

SERIES III.

240

271

311

338

372

NATURE OF THE MIND: ITS GENERAL FACULTIES AND

FURNITURE.

Lect.

I. On Materialism and Immaterialism

II. On the Nature and Duration of the Soul, as

explained by popular Tradition, by various

Schools of Philosophy, and by Revelation

III. On Human Understanding

IV. The Subject continued

V. On ancient and modern Sceptics

VI. On the Hypothesis of Common Sense

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77

103

139

Lect.

VIII. On the general Faculties and Free-agency of

the Mind

IX. On the Origin, Connexion, and Character of

the Passions

X. On the leading Characters and Passions of

savage and civilized Life

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227

247

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283

XI. On Temperaments, or Constitutional Pro-

pensities

XII. On Pathognomy, or the Expression of the

Passions

XIII. On Physiognomy and Craniognomy; or the

Expression of the Temper and Disposition 303

XIV. On the Language of the Passions

XV. On, Taste, Genius, and Imagination

335

THE

BOOK OF NATURE.

SERIES I.

LECTURE I.

ON MATTER, AND A MATERIAL WORLD.

In the comprehensive range of science proposed to be treated of in the SURREY INSTITUTION, the department to which I shall have the honour of inviting your attention will be that of NATURAL PHILOSOPHY, or PHYSICS, in the most extensive sense of these terms: that branch of science which makes use of the individual principles and discoveries of every other branch within the range of nature, as the architect makes use of the bricks, the mortar, the wood, and the marble of different artisans, and builds up the whole into a perfect edifice; which takes a bird's-eye view, as it were, of a picturesque and spreading landscape from some commanding eminence; and, without having laboured in the details of arranging the ground, of cultivatin, the soil, of planting the woods, of giving flexure to the rivers, of enriching the scenery with flocks, herds, bridges, and buildings, points out the general connection of part with part, and the harmony which flows from the combined effect. This, indeed, is to