THE PHILOSOPHY OF INSTINCT AND REASON. BY J. STEVENSON BUSHNAN, M. D., F. L. S. AUTHOR OF THE INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF NATURE, &c. &c. EDINBURGH: ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK, BOOKSELLERS TO HIS MAJESTY FOR SCOTLAND. MDCCCXXXVII. DEDICATION. TO HENRY LORD BROUGHAM, F.R.S., AND MEMBER OF THE INSTITUTE OF FRANCE. MY LORD, I GLADLY avail myself of the permission your politeness has afforded me, to add to the following pages the lustre of a name associated with almost every department of literature and science. In such a dedication, I am fully aware the advantage is altogether upon my side; nothing that I have written, or may write, can add to the fame of your Lordship's labours, while your name may serve as a passport to mine where their own unassisted powers could not gain them ac cess. But it gives me, my Lord, peculiar pleasure to take this opportunity of telling the world of my readers,-small as that world may be,—that although differing with your Lordship on many highly important points, what is the high sense I entertain of your genius—enlightening every subject on which it glances; adorning every pursuit to which it applies its powers; and giving energy and direction to every measure which it influences. In the following Treatise I differ from your Lordship in many opinions which you support in your late work on Natural Theology; but I am too well acquainted with your Lordship's character not to feel assured, that the expression of a conscientious conviction, however much opposed to your own, will always be received by you with candour and indulgence. |