[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.
[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.
[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).
