4. The QUARTERLY CHRISTIAN SPECTATOR. CONDUCTED by AN ASSOCIATION OF GENTLEMEN. Vol. II. 1830. NEW-HAVEN, NEw-York, BY John P. HAVEN. BArldwin AND TREADw AY, PRINTERs. CONTENTS Art. I. Review of Payne's Elements of Mental and Moral a po shto syII. Review of Memoir of Mrs. Judson, roseght III. Review of Judge Story's Inaugural Address, 43 IV. Review of Wilson's Lectures on the Evidences of Cr-V. Review on the Varioloid and Small Pox; and on the moral effects of prevalent Malignant Diseases, 70 VÍ. Review of Payson's Sermons, ContrintVII. Persecutions in Switzerland, Bar. VIII. Review of the Life of Summerfield, lorto A. IX. Review of Sir Humpry Davy's Salmonia, 4. X. Review of Dr. Tyler's Strictures on the Christian ART. I. Review of the Fourth Annual Report of the Prison II. Review of Letters on Revivals of Religion, III. Review of Jaines' Church Member's Guide, 246 pe than IV. Review of Grahame's History of Early Settlernents Yndlerne? V. Review of the Lives of Mather and Henry, 281 Tebe!* VI. Review on Missions to China, VII. Review on the Early History of the Congregational VIII. Inquiries respecting the doctrine of Imputation, minen IX. Review of Cox's Sermon on Regeneration, Hirib teid gl X. On the System of Instruction in the Fellenberg Insti- XI. Review on Religious Liberty in Switzerland, 366 Gull Art. I. Review of the Difficulties of Infidelity, II. Review of True Religion Delineated, acorda queen III. Review of the Report of the American Sunday School IV. Review of Memoirs of John Mason Good, V. Review of Advice to a Young Christian, VI. Review on African Colonization, fer VII. Review of the Doctrine and Discipline of the Metho- IX. Review of Speeches by Hayne and Webster, 517 Art. I. Review of the Life and Writings of the Rev. Andrew II. On the Fear of God, as an Essential Principle of III. Letter from a Traveler on the Continent of Europe, 608 IV. Review of the Essays of Philanthropos on Peace and V. Review of Letters on Missions, VI. Review of Sprague's Lectures to Youth, ) VII. Review of Wheaton's Journal of a Residence in Lon- VIII. Review of an Address to the Citizens of Boston, and an Historical Sketch of Watertown, THE QUARTERLY CHRISTIAN SPECTATOR. VOL. II.---NO. I. MARCH, 1830, Art. 1.-Review of Payne's ELEMENTS OF MENTAL AND MORAL SCIENCE. Elements of Mental and Moral Science ; designed to exchibit the Original Susceptibililies of the Mind, and the Rule by which the Rectitude of any of its states or feelings should be judged. By GEORGE PAYNE, A. M. New-York: J. Leavitt. Boston: Crocker & Brewster. 1829. pp. 450, We opened this volume, with more than ordinary interest; hoping to find in it an able exhibition of the elementary principles of mental and moral science. Intellectual philosophy is now in that stage of its progress, which calls for a well arranged and compendious view of its leading truths. He who is desirous of possessing himself of its treasures, is at a loss to know where to commence his inquiries. He opens, perhaps, the attractive volumes of Dr. Brown, but soon finds himself embarrassed, for want of a familiarity with the opinions of preceding writers on the subject. If he turns back to the successive treatises of Dugald Stewart, he meets with frequent discussions of the positions of Reid, and Hume, and Berkeley, and Locke. So also he finds, that the works of Dr. Reid consist, in a great measure, of commentaries on the views of preceding philosophers. After perusing a few of those writers, he learns that, to conduct his researches with a fair prospect of success, he must reverse the order of his investigations ; going back as far at least, as the writings of Locke; and following the chronological order, through some fifteen or twenty volumes of Berkeley, Reid, Stewart, Brown, etc. And when all this is done, will he have a clear, and consistent, and well digested system of intellectual philosophy in his mind? We fear he will not; unless he has carried along, with his reading, a laborious process of exaunining, comparing, modifying, and arranging, the heterogeneous VOL. II. 1. |