1. On some First Principles of a Mental Science, deduced from Correlations of the Primary Laws of Matter and Mind

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The author commences his communication by showing the need that has arisen for a scientific exposition of the laws of thought in relation to the laws of life and organization. In all the practical business of society, as well as of the physician, the phenomena of life and mind are inseparably associated; and consequently without such scientific exposition anything like a scientific application of mental philosophy to medicine and the sciences of human nature, included under sociology, is impossible. But physiology is itself a derivative science, inasmuch as vital processes are primarily dependent upon certain molecular forces of matter, known as light, heat, chemical affinity, &c.