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am indebted to Dr. Davidson, the Professor of Logic, and to Mr. Anderson, the Librarian, of the University of Aberdeen, for documents to which the space at my disposal forbids more than an occasional reference.
Those who desire to study further the chapter in the history of European philosophy in which Reid’s name is prominent, may be referred to Cousin’s critical appreciation in his Philosophie Écossaise (1857), and to Professor Andrew Seth’s Balfour Lectures on ‘Scottish Philosophy’ (1885), in which the Scottish and German answers to Hume are compared. The industry of the late Dr. M‘Cosh has collected, in his Scottish Philosophy (1875), interesting particulars regarding our national philosophers from Hutcheson to Hamilton.
| A. C. F. |
| University of Edinburgh. |
| 21st February 1898. |
