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CONTENTS.




DISSERTATION.

progress of metaphysical, ethical, and political philosophy.

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Preface, containing some Critical Remarks on the Discourse prefixed to
the French Encyclopédie,
1
PART FIRST.—Intoduction, 23
Chapter I. Progress of Philosophy from the Revival of Letters to the
publication of Bacon's Philosophical Works,
25
Chapter II. Progress of Philosophy from the publication of Bacon's
Philosophical Works till that of the Essay on Human Understanding.
Sect. 1 Progress of Philosophy in England during this period.—
Bacon, 63
Hobbes, 79
Antagonists of Hobbes, 85
Sect. 2. Progress of Philosophy in France during the Seventeenth
Century.—
Montaigne.—Charron.—La Rouchefoucauld, 98
Descartes.—Gassendi.—Malebranche, 112
Sect. 3. Progress of Philosophy during the Seventeenth Century in
some parts of Europe not included in the preceding
Review
,
170
PART SECOND.—Intoduction, 203
Progress of Metaphysics during the Eighteenth Century.—
Sect. 1 Historical and Critical Review of the Philosophical Works of
Locke and Leibnitz.—Locke
,
206
Sect. 2. Continuation of the Review of Locke and Leibnitz.—Leibnitz, 252

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