Natural History of Intellect and Other Papers (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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The first two pieces in this volume are lectures from the University Courses on philosophy, given at Harvard College in 1870 and 1871, by persons not members of the Faculty. The Natural History of the Intellect was the subject which Emerson chose. He had, from his early youth, cherished the proj ect of a new method in metaphysics, proceeding by observation of the mental facts, without attempting an analysis and coordination of them which must, from the nature of the case, be premature. With this view, he had, at intervals from 1848 to 1866, announced courses on the Natural History of Intellect, The N atural Method of Mental Philosophy, and Philosophy for the People. He would, he said, give anecdotes of the spirit, a calendar of mental moods, without any pretence of system.

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