Elements of the philosophy of the human mind. By Dugald Stewart. Rev. and abridged, with critical and explanatory notes, for the use of colleges and schools. By Francis Bowen ...

CONTENTS.
SECT. V. Of the Purposes to which the Powers of Abstraction and
Generalization aremsubservient... 129
VI. Of the Errors to which we are liable in consequence of a
rash Application of general Principles... 137
VII. Differences in the Characters of Individuals arising from
different Habits of Abstraction and Generalization o 143
CHAPTER V.
OF THE ASSOCIATION OF IDEAS 10 0. 150
PART I. OF THE INFLUENCE OF ASSOCIATION IN REGULATING
THE SUCCESSION OF OUR THOUGHTS.. 151
SECT. I. General Observations on'this Part of our Constitution. 151
II. Of the Principles of Association among our Ideas.. 160
III. Of the Power which the Mind has over the Train of its
Thoughts.....165
IV. Illustrations of this Doctrine... 169
1. Of Wit.... 169
2. Of Rhyme........ 173
3. Of Poetical Fancy.. 177
4. Of Invention in the Arts and Sciences 181
V. Application of the Principles stated in the foregoing Sections, to explain the Phenomena of Dreaming. 188
PART II. OF THE INFLUENCE OF ASSOCIATION ON THE INTELLECTUAL AND ON THE ACTIVE POWVERS. 208
SECT. I. Of the Influence of casual Associations on our speculative
Conclusions.e o. 208
II. Of the Influence of' the Association of Ideas on our Judgments in Matters of Taste.. 227
III. Of the Influence of Association on our active Principles
and on our moral Judgments.. o. 239
IV. General Remarks on the foregoing Subjects. 248
CIHAPTER VI.
OF ME-MORY. ~., o o 254
SECT. I. General Observations on Memory... 254
II. Of the Varieties of Memory in different Individuals. 269
Ill. Of the Improvement of Memory o. 290