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On the 25th and 26th of the month the maximum was as much as 30° below that of the 11th, and it is curious to remark that, only a few days after a temperature of 82.5 at midsummer, the thermometer should, at the middle of the day, stand no higher than it did at mid-winter, for on the 7th of December the maximum was 2° higher than on the 26th of June. On the 4th of August, hardly a cloud to be any where discerned-the air calm and hot-about four or half-past, p. m., a loud clap, apparently of thunder, burst over us, quite near, with a continued rumbling as if the sound reverberated among clouds. We were out of doors at the time and the noise seemed to come from somewhere over-head. It was heard by almost every one in this neighbourhood-and those in doors at the time were sensible of considerable motion-shutters and windows rattling, &c. There have been various reports of slight shocks of earthquake; we can only state the fact above-mentioned; it surprised us much at the time, and we are yet unable to account for it. There have been no thunder storms at Malvern during the preceding months heavy storms and distant thunder with occasional lightening-but nothing like a thunder storm. ON THE EFFECTS OF CERTAIN MENTAL AND BODILY STATES UPON THE IMAGINATION.* BY LANGSTON PARKER, ESQ. I. THE GENERAL PHENOMENA OF THE IMAGINATION. METAPHYSICS, Psycology, or the Science of Mind, has attracted, in an eminent degree, the attention of the master-spirits of all ages; and, from Plato to Abercrombie, the most profound philosophers have been engaged in investigating its properties, its phenomena, and the abstract nature of its essence. One system of ontology has followed another in rapid succession; each has flourished upon the arena of learning for a time, till, like its predecessor, each has been suddenly swept away by the production of some new system, and consigned to the stream of oblivion. This is essentially true with regard to the knowledge of the intimate nature and operations of mind; and, after all the labours of the learned, after twenty centuries of waste of time, and talent, and ink, and paper, after the creation of countless folios, the very number of which would appal a modern author to contemplate, the last writer upon the subject tells us that all that is past is the mere frivolity of science and speculation, and that, in fact, we know nothing about the matter. Since one of the mental operations is to form the subject of this series of lectures, a prefatory notice of the nature of mind may be considered indispensable. "The mind," observes Abercrombie, " is that part of our being which thinks and wills, remembers and reasons; we know nothing of it except from these functions. By means of the corporeal senses, it holds intercourse with the things of the external world, and receives impressions from them, but of this connexion we know nothing except the facts: when we attempt to speculate upon their cause, we wander, at once, from the path of philosophical enquiry, into conjectures which are so far beyond the proper sphere, as they are beyond the reach of the human faculties. The object of true science, in such *The following is the first of a series of Lectures, delivered at the Birmingham Philosophical Institution, by the author. January, 1836.-VOL. III., NO. XIV. N. |