PROBLEMS OF LIFE AND MIND BY GEORGE HENRY LEWES First Series THE FOUNDATIONS OF A CREED VOL L LONDON TRÜBNER & CO., LUDGATE HILL 1874 All Rights reserved 11-19-37 2 val. add capry PREFACE. THE work, of which this is the first volume, has been many years in preparation; indeed its origin may be said to go so far back as 1836, when with the rashness of ambitious youth I planned a treatise on the Philosophy of the Mind in which the doctrines of Reid, Stewart, and Brown were to be physiologically interpreted. In 1837 I gave a course of lectures on the subject in Fox's Chapel, Finsbury. The scheme was abandoned, partly because of a growing dissatisfaction with the doctrines of the Scotch School, and partly perhaps from a misgiving as to my physiological knowledge. Other studies and other labours occupied me until 1860, when I believed that my researches into the nervous system had placed in my hands a clue through the labyrinth of mental phenomena; and misled by the plausible supposition that the complex phenomena in Man might be better interpreted by approaching them through the simpler phenomena in Animals, I began to collect materials for a work on Animal Psychology. This also proved to be premature. Rightly to understand the mental condition of Animals we must first gain a clear vision of the fundamental processes in |