Excerpt from The Pocket Lacon, Vol. 1 of 2: Comprising Nearly One Thousand Extracts From the Best Authors And what is the pretension of the compiler? Ject is not so much to teach men things of which ignorant, as to remind them of what they know; not so much to make men read (to borrow Mos-smear) 's ex pression) as to make them think. And what is the subject of this work 7 The mind of mam - investigated, not by disquisition, but by the volun tary exhibition of its several faculties, set forth in active exercise. It is an anatomy of the mental powers, self demonstrated, in the vigour unrestrained. It will teach men how to think. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.