Produced by Ed Brandon ANALYSIS OF THE PHENOMENA OF THE HUMAN MIND BY JAMES MILL WITH NOTES ILLUSTRATIVE AND CRITICAL BY ALEXANDER BAIN ANDREW FINDLATER AND GEORGE GROTE EDITED WITH ADDITIONAL NOTES BY JOHN STUART MILL IN TWO VOLUMES VOL. I. SECOND EDITION LONDON LONGMANS, GREEN, READER, AND DYER. 1878 "In order to prepare the way for a just and comprehensive system of Logic, a previous survey of our nature, considered as a great whole, is an indispensable requisite."--_Philosophical Essays_ (_Prelim. Dissert._) p. lxvii. _by Dugald Stewart, Esq._ "Would not Education be necessarily rendered more systematical and enlightened, if the powers and faculties on which it operates were more scientifically examined, and better understood?" _Ibid._ p. xlviii. [_Right of Translation reserved._] PREFACE TO THE PRESENT EDITION. IN the study of Nature, either mental or physical, the aim of the scientific enquirer is to diminish as much as possible the catalogue of ultimate truths. When, without doing violence to facts, he is able to bring one phenomenon within the laws of another; when he can shew that a fact or agency, which seemed to be original and distinct, could have been produced by other known facts and agencies, acting according to their own laws; the enquirer who has arrived at this result, considers himself to have made an important advance in the knowledge of nature, and to have brought science, in that department, a step nearer to perfection. Other accessions to science, however important practically, are, in a scientific point of view, mere additions to the materials: this is something done towards perfecting the structure itself.