ADVERTISEMENT. THE HE original intention of the following Sheets was merely to furnish a Text Book for part of the Author's Academical Courfe. During the execution of this Plan, he found reason to believe that a fhort Treatife, which should contain an Analysis of the Powers of the Human Understanding, tending to illuftrate the Principles of found Reasoning, and scientific Investigation, might be a defirable acquisition to Students in general: because the Elementary Systems of Logic which have yet appeared, are almost all founded upon the metaphysical subtleties of the schoolmen; and have little reference to the present advanced state of of Intellectual Philofophy. Actuated by these confiderations, the Author presumes to offer to the Public the following attempt to fupply a defideratum in Elementary Science; which may prove of fome ufe to the Student, till an abler hand fhall undertake the execution of the talk. |