Instinct and reason, philosophically investigated : with a view to ascertain the principles of the science of education / by Thomas Jarrold, M.D.

  • Jarrold, T. (Thomas), 1770-1853.
Date:
1736 [i.e. 1836]
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Instinct and reason, philosophically investigated : with a view to ascertain the principles of the science of education / by Thomas Jarrold, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by University of Bristol Library. The original may be consulted at University of Bristol Library.

    16/362 (page 8)
    to gain a knowledge of the laws of the mind, in the same way that the knowledge of other laws have been obtained, not by inquiring into what it is in itself, but liow it operates. The mind will ever be un- known to us in its elements, and can only be compre- hended in its operations. Should there be any students, who are undaunted at the defeat of others, they will here find ample scope for their concentrated powers. A much humbler course awaits us, we leave the inquiry into its essence or mode of acting to others—we pre- sume on no svstem—all we aim at is to draw attention to the subject of education as a Science, by which the mind is taught, elevated, and strengthened, and which naturally results from a practical inquiry into the powers of the mind. Believing that every operation in nature, whether physicial or otherwise,is connected with one of its laws, we venture to place the developement of the mind in the number, and claim for it a certain and definite principle, by which it may obtain the full exercise of its faculties. By reasoning from facts. Astronomy and Che- mistry, and every other science, w^ere discovered Theories, on these subjects succeeded each other, but the facts remained, and when they became numerous, some Master-mind viewed them in re- lation to each other, and discovered a principle in which all harmonized and by which all are direct- ed. I ask for the same system to be pursued { with respect to the mind. The astronomer did not bewilder himself in speculations on the nature and elements of gravitation, but he studied its effects, and