Elements of Psychology Included in a Critical Examination of Locke's Essay on the Human Understanding, with Appendix to Cousin's Examination of Locke, Notes and Additions

Scarce first edition in original cloth binding. Leather label stamped in gilt. Faint shadow of a label on spine. No ownership marks. Intriguing, undeciphered contemporary signature at top of title page, likely an association item. Front hinge starting but sound. Endpapers and scattered pages are foxed, some heavily, else good+. "Elements of Psychology Included in a Critical Examination of Locke's Essay on the Human Understanding, with Appendix to Cousin's Examination of Locke, Notes and Additions". A 19th century classic. The ideas presented in Cousin's work were very influential in the development of American philosophy and educational thought. Specifically Cousin's method of viewing ideas either of logical or chronological terms, and his examination of Kant - were influential in the work of Asa Mahan, early president of Oberlin and author of "A System of Intellectual Philosophy", 1845 which laid the foundation of the school's approach and philosophy. He was influential in early American philosophical thought, as evidenced by the American publication and translation of this work by Caleb Sprague Henry. Henry was one of the three "Christian Transcendentalists".…