[9] These MS. dissertations have been lately recovered, and I have thus been able to compare them with the _Inquiry_, in which I find them mostly embodied. [10] Birkwood MS. [11] I have elsewhere discussed the true meaning of Berkeley’s philosophy. [12] Between the College and the Cathedral, diverging to the east. [13] Watt began those experiments in Glasgow about 1763. [14] The American revolt was a severe stroke to Glasgow at the time, though it led to a great development of manufactures in the city afterwards. See Colville’s _By-Ways of History_ (1897), pp. 281-314. [15] William Traill, a Glasgow graduate, was elected. Playfair (of St. Andrews), afterwards Professor John Playfair of Edinburgh, was also a candidate, then only eighteen. [16] The Bell of the Brae. [17] The Forth and Clyde Canal was commenced in 1768 and opened from sea to sea in 1790. [18] Ramsay of Ochtertyre, who often met him at Blair Drummond, mentions that ‘for more than fifteen years Reid spent great part of the College vacation there with Lord Kames.’ [19] Kant’s uncritical identification of Reid’s philosophical appeal to the common rational sense with the popular appeal and declamation of Oswald and even Beattie, is exposed by Professor Sidgwick in _Mind_ (April 1895). [20] Birkwood MSS. [21] Birkwood MSS. [22] Professor Richardson’s Memoir of Arthur. [23] _The World as Will and Idea_, translated by Mr. Haldane and Mr. Kemp, ii. 240. Schopenhauer makes other interesting references to Reid. [24] Birkwood MSS. [25] See also Reid’s _Essays on the Active Powers_, I. 1-6, and _passim_. [26] M. Boutroux, in _Revue Française d’Edimbourg_, No. 4. [27] Reid’s philosophy was Renan’s ‘ideal’ in his early life, according to his biographer. [28] So in the ‘Preliminary Notice,’ in the new edition of Dr. Stirling’s _Secret of Hegel_—last paragraph. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Thomas Reid, by A. Campbell Fraser