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Thoughts on Man: His Nature, Productions, and Discoveries
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PREFACE.
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CONTENTS
ERRATUM.
1.
ESSAY I. OF BODY AND MIND. THE PROLOGUE.
2.
ESSAY II. OF THE DISTRIBUTION OF TALENTS.
1.
SECTION I. PRESUMED DEARTH OF INTELLECTUAL POWER.—SCHOOLS FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOUTH CONSIDERED.—THE BOY AND THE MAN COMPARED.
2.
SECTION II. EQUALITY OF MAN WITH MAN.—TALENTS EXTENSIVELY DISTRIBUTED.—WAY IN WHICH THIS DISTRIBUTION IS COUNTERACTED.—THE APTITUDE OF CHILDREN FOR DIFFERENT PURSUITS SHOULD BE EARLY SOUGHT OUT.— HINTS FOR A BETTER SYSTEM OF EDUCATION.—AMBITION AN UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLE.
3.
SECTION III. ENCOURAGING VIEW OF OUR COMMON NATURE.—POWER OF SOUND EXPOSITION AFFORDED TO ALL.—DOCTRINE OF THIS ESSAY AND THE HYPOTHESIS OF HELVETIUS COMPARED.—THE WILLING AND UNWILLING PUPIL CONTRASTED.—MISCHIEVOUS TENDENCY OF THE USUAL MODES OF EDUCATION.
4.
SECTION IV. HOW FAR OUR GENUINE PROPENSITIES AND VOCATION SHOULD BE FAVOURED.—SELF-REVERENCE RECOMMENDED.— CONCLUSION.
3.
ESSAY III. OF INTELLECTUAL ABORTION.
4.
ESSAY IV. OF THE DURABILITY OF HUMAN ACHIEVEMENTS AND PRODUCTIONS.
5.
ESSAY V. OF THE REBELLIOUSNESS OF MAN.
6.
ESSAY VI. OF HUMAN INNOCENCE.
7.
ESSAY VII. OF THE DURATION OF HUMAN LIFE.
8.
ESSAY VIII. OF HUMAN VEGETATION.
9.
ESSAY IX. OF LEISURE.
10.
ESSAY X. OF IMITATION AND INVENTION.
11.
ESSAY XI. OF SELF-LOVE AND BENEVOLENCE.
12.
ESSAY XII. OF THE LIBERTY OF HUMAN ACTIONS.
13.
ESSAY XIII. OF BELIEF.
14.
ESSAY XIV. OF YOUTH AND AGE.
15.
ESSAY XV. OF LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP.
16.
ESSAY XVI. OF FRANKNESS AND RESERVE.
17.
ESSAY XVII. OF BALLOT.
18.
ESSAY XVIII. OF DIFFIDENCE.
19.
ESSAY XIX. OF SELF-COMPLACENCY.
20.
ESSAY XX. OF PHRENOLOGY.
21.
ESSAY XXI. OF ASTRONOMY.
1.
SECTION I.
2.
SECTION II.
3.
SECTION III.
4.
SECTION IV.
22.
ESSAY XXII. OF THE MATERIAL UNIVERSE.
23.
ESSAY XXIII. OF HUMAN VIRTUE. THE EPILOGUE.
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"or that were thrown in my way,"
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"that were thrown in my way, or."
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