An explanation would have been due in a treatise.Picavet quotes Rhétoré's Philosophie de Thomas Brown (a book which I have not seen)for the statement that Brown's lectures often read like a translation of Laromiguière,with whom Brown was 'perhaps'acquainted.As,however,the Lé?ons ,to which reference is apparently made,did not appear till 1815and 1818,when Brown's lectures were already written,this seems to be impossible.
The coincidence,which to me seems to be exaggerated by the statement,is explicable by a common relation to previous writers.
22.Lectures ,p.166(Lect.xxvi).
23.Lectures ,p.158,(Lect.xxv).
24.Ibid.p.151(Lect.xxiv).
25.Lectures ,p.177(ch.xxvii).Brown made the same remark to Mackintosh in 1812.(Mackintosh's Ethical Philosophy ,1872,236n.)26.Ibid.p.154(Lect.xxiv).
27.See Hamilton's note to Reid's Works ,p.111.
28.Lectures ,p.255(Lect.xi).
29.Ibid.(Lect.xxxiii and following).
30.Ibid.p.214-15(Lect.xxxiii).The phrase is revived by Professor Stout in this Analytic Psychology .
31.Lectures ,p.213,(Lect.xxxiii).
32.This is one of the coincidences with Laromiguière (Le?ons (1837),i.103).
33.Lectures ,p.210.
34.Lectures ,p.315(Lect.xlviii).
35.Ibid.p.314.
36.Lectures ,p.335(Lect.li).See Lect.xi for a general explanation.The mind is nothing but a 'series of feelings';and to say 'I am conscious of feeling 'is simply to say 'I feel.'The same phrase often occurs in James Mill.
37.Ibid.p.298(Lect.xlvi).
38.Ibid.p.498(Lect.lxxiv).
39.Lectures ,p.622(Lect.xciii).
40.Dissertations ,p.98.
41.Froude's Carlyle ,p.25.
42.Miscellanies (1858),ii.104.See,too,Miscellanies ,i,60,on German Literature,where he thinks that the Germans attacked the centre instead of the outworks of Hume's citadel.Carlyle speaks with marked respect of Dugald Stewart,who,if he knew what he was about,would agree with Kant.
43.In Caroline Fox's Memories of Old Friends (second edition),ii,314,is a letter from J.S.Mill,expressing a very high opinion of Brown,whom he had just been re-reading (1840)with a view to the Logic .Brown's analysis in his early lectures of the amount of what we can learn of the phenomena of the world seems to me perfect,and his mode of inquiry into the mind is strictly founded upon that analysis.'
44.I quote from this edition.
Andrew Findlater (1810-1885),a Scottish achoolmaster,and editor of Chamber's Cyclopaedia ,was a philologist (Dictionary of National Biography ),and his notes chiefly concern Mill's adaptations of Horne Tooke,45.Treatise (bk.i,pt.i,sec.Iv).
46.J.S.Mill's Autobiography ,p.68.
47.Fragment on Mackintosh ,p.314.
48.Analysis ,ii,42.'Odd,'because Brown was six years younger than Mill.
49.'Education,'p.6.
50.Analysis ,i,52.
51.Analysis ,i,xvii.
52.Ibid.i,70.
53.Analysis ,i,71.
54.Ibid.i.78.
55.Ibid.i,83.
56.Analysis ,ii,42.
57.Ibid.i,270.
58.Ibid.i,111.
59.Ibid.i,362.
60.Analysis ,i,154n.
61.Ibid.i,161.
62.Analysis ,i,189.
63.Ibid.i,163n.
64.Ibid.i,266.
65.Ibid.i,269.
66.Ibid.i,295.
67.Analysis ,i,162n.187n.
68.Ibid.ii,21.
69.Ibid.i,224-25.
70.Analysis ,i,342.
71.e.g.Ibid.ii,176.
72.Ibid.i,341.
73.Ibid.i,342n.
74.Ibid.i,331.
75.Ibid.i,345.
76.Ibid.i,352.
77.Ibid.i,381.
78.Analysis ,i,363.
79.Ibid.i,402.