Thomas Reid

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PREFACE

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I BOYHOOD AND ANCESTRY: STRACHAN AND THE VALLEY OF THE DEE 1710-1722

CHAPTER II AT MARISCHAL COLLEGE 1722-1737

CHAPTER III NEW MACHAR AND DAVID HUME 1737-1751

CHAPTER IV OLD ABERDEEN: A REGENT IN KING'S COLLEGE 1751-1764

CHAPTER V UNIVERSAL SCEPTICISM VERSUS INSPIRED COMMON SENSE: AN

CHAPTER VI GLASGOW COLLEGE: THE PROFESSOR OF MORAL PHILOSOPHY 1764-1780

CHAPTER VII PHILOSOPHICAL RETIREMENT: AUTHORSHIP IN OLD AGE 1780-1795

CHAPTER VIII INSPIRED COMMON SENSE AND CAUSATION: ACTIVE OR MORAL POWER IN MAN

CHAPTER IX THE END 1796

CHAPTER X RETROSPECTIVE AND CRITICAL

CHAPTER XI REID IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY: DEVELOPMENT OF THE

FOOTNOTES

THOMAS REID


FAMOUS SCOTS SERIES

The following Volumes are now ready:—

  • THOMAS CARLYLE. By Hector C. Macpherson.
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  • HUGH MILLER. By W. Keith Leask.
  • JOHN KNOX. By A. Taylor Innes.
  • ROBERT BURNS. By Gabriel Setoun.
  • THE BALLADISTS. By John Geddie.
  • RICHARD CAMERON. By Professor Herkless.
  • SIR JAMES Y. SIMPSON. By Eve Blantyre Simpson.
  • THOMAS CHALMERS. By Professor W. Garden Blaikie.
  • JAMES BOSWELL. By W. Keith Leask.
  • TOBIAS SMOLLETT. By Oliphant Smeaton.
  • FLETCHER OF SALTOUN. By G. W. T. Omond.
  • THE BLACKWOOD GROUP. By Sir George Douglas.
  • NORMAN MACLEOD. By John Wellwood.
  • SIR WALTER SCOTT. By Professor Saintsbury.
  • KIRKCALDY OF GRANGE. By Louis A. BarbÉ.
  • ROBERT FERGUSSON. By A. B. Grosart.
  • JAMES THOMSON. By William Bayne.
  • MUNGO PARK. By T. Banks Maclachlan.
  • DAVID HUME. By Professor Calderwood.
  • THOMAS REID. By Professor Campbell Fraser.

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THOMAS
REID

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FAMOUS
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