A Philosophical Treatise on the Nature and Constitution of Man

Abstract

DR. HARRIS has long been known as one of those social scholars who combine with much modern learning a great deal of the learning of the ancients. He is essentially an antiquary in science, and he has obviously collected and brought under ready command a fine array of authorities of various schools of thought and of many centuries. In the two handsome volumes which now lie before us, Dr. Harris has collected a rich store of the historical work of which he is so fond, bearing on the history of man in relation to his life and his physical and mental constitution. The author tells us in the preface that the object of his work is “to afford a comprehensive and complete survey of the nature of man as regards his intelligent being; to exhibit the direct and immediate connexion of each department in his constitution, with its corresponding relation; and to demonstrate the uniform mechanism of the whole as one entire and consistent system.”

A Philosophical Treatise on the Nature and Constitution of Man.

By George Harris (London: George Bell and Sons, 1877.)