Ezra Stiles Ely, Science of the Human Mind, 1st Edition 1819
"Conversations on The Science of the Human Mind", by Ezra Stiles Ely, Philadelphia: Printed for the author. Sold by A. Finley. William Fry, printer, 1819. First Edition, First printing with errors pages 81 and 103, and Errata label inside front cover. [Reference: Austin #725. / "Early American Medical Imprints: A Guide to Works Printed in the United States." By Robert B. Austin, National Library of Medicine (U.S.)].
Provenance:
This book is from the library of Rev. Alexander McClelland, Carlisle, PA.
Hard boards, leather [leather aging, a few leather damages on spine, leather creases between spine and boards; rounded corners, shelf wear: see photos]; boards are attached; 4.1/4" x 7.1/4"; "Rev. Alex. McClelland, Carlisle, Pa." is ink written on the front endpaper, 228 pages; some soiling and wear, a few page corner folds, very good condition.
Early American work on cognitive theory and psychology. Ely's "Conversations" is also notable for including one of the earliest printed American quotations from Hume's Treatise of Human Nature. Mark Spencer notes, "Despite his reservations about Hume's philosophy, Ely here accepted Hume's basic premise that all sciences are traced to the science of the human mind." ["Hume's Reception in Early America Expanded Edition" Mark G. Spencer. Bloomsbury Academic 2017]
"The writer of the following pages has endeavoured to exhibit, in a familiar manner, the Elements OF THE Science of the Human Mind. The sources whence he has drawn his doctrines, are his own consciousness, memory, and reflection; and the writings of Locke, Hume, Price, Hartley, Lord Karnes, Reid, Stewart, Duncan, President Edwards, Beattie, Watts, Condillac, and Cogan. What he deems true, and most important in all these celebrated authors, will be found in this compendium. He disclaims all metaphysics but those of common sense.
He flatters himself, that these Conversations will prove beneficial to Students in Law, Medicine, and Divinity, and to the most intelligent young ladies of our country. No science is so intimately connected with all other systematic arrangements of knowledge as that of which he has here treated; and he cannot but hope, therefore, that many who have neither time nor patience to peruse many volumes, will do him the honour of thoroughly examining one. Philadelphia, January 1st, 1819." [Preface. "Conversations on The Science of the Human Mind"]
On June 14, 1819, Ezra Stiles Ely sent a copy of his "Conversations" to Thomas Jefferson. In the letter included with the book he wrote:
"Permit a young Philosopher, to present a veteran with a copy of his "Conversations on the Science of the Human Mind." If you have leisure to read the little book, which I send you through the mail, I hope it will afford you some philosophical recreation. Were you not continually plagued with such things, I should solicit the expression of your opinion upon it.
Possibly it may be of some use, to the already celebrated University, of which you are the father. I am, dear Sir, a Presbyterian, a Calvinist, and a man of common sense: I can, therefore, respect and esteem a literary man, of distinguished talents, & usefulness to his country, however I may differ from him, even in important theological opinions."
On June 25, 1819, Thomas Jefferson responded:
"Your favor Sir, of the 14th has been duly received, and with it the book you were so kind as to forward to me. For this mark of attention be pleased to accept my thanks. the science of the human mind is curious, but it is one on which I have not indulged myself in much speculation. The times in which I have lived, and the scenes in which I have been engaged, have required me to keep the mind too much in action to have leisure to study minutely it's laws of action. I am therefore little qualified to give an opinion on the comparative worth of books on that subject, and little disposed to do it on any book.
Your's has brought the science within a small compass and that is a merit of the 1st order; and especially with one to whom the drudgery of letter writing often denies the leisure of reading a single page in a week. On looking over the summary of the contents of your book, it does not seem likely to bring into collision any of those sectarian differences which you suppose may exist between us. In that branch of religion which regards the moralities of life, and the duties of a social being, which teaches us to love our neighbors as ourselves, and to do good to all men, I am sure that you & I do not differ...
To yourself I pray the acceptance of my great respect.
Th. Jefferson"
[See: founders.archives.gov. documents. Jefferson]
Ezra Stiles Ely (1786-1861) was a minister to the Third Presbyterian (Old Pine Street) Church of Philadelphia and a trustee of Jefferson Medical College. He was instrumental in funding the Jefferson Medical College building that stood from 1828 to 1846 at Tenth and Sansom Streets.
Ezra Stiles Ely was a graduate of Yale (1804) and, when he published his Conversations on the Science of the Human Mind (1819), a Presbyterian minister in Philadelphia. Ely was involved with numerous periodical publications, including the Philadelphian, the Presbyterian Magazine, the Princeton Review, the Quarterly Theological Review, and the Religious Magazine, or Spirit of Foreign Theological Journals and Reviews.Ely moved to New York City in 1810 to serve as chaplain to a hospital and almshouse (later known as Bellevue Hospital). Four years later he was installed as pastor of the Pine Street (or Third) Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia, serving until 1835.
Named a trustee of Jefferson Medical College in 1826, the following year he was instrumental in securing land and erecting a new building crucial to the Philadelphia school’s survival. Ely had become friendly with Andrew Jackson but earned his displeasure in 1829 when he wrote to the president criticizing the recent marriage of Secretary of War John H. Eaton and Margaret O’Neale Timberlake. Ely relayed injurious allegations regarding the young woman that were central to what became known as the Peggy Eaton Affair. In 1835 he moved to Marion County, Missouri, where he invested most of his wealth in a failed missionary attempt to found a Presbyterian city, college, and theological seminary. Ely eventually returned permanently to Philadelphia, where he served as pastor of First Presbyterian Church in the Northern Liberties, 1844-52 (Dexter, Yale Biographies, 5:647-51;)
Provenance:
Alexander McClelland (1794-1864)
Alexander McClelland was born in Schenectady, New York in 1794; not much else is known about his early life. He studied at Union College, graduating at the age of 15. McClelland then began to study theology under Rev. John Anderson of the Associate Presbyterian Church in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He left shortly thereafter, however, to complete his studies at the Theological Seminary of the Associate Reformed Synod of New York. It was at this institution that he first came in contact with Rev. Dr. John Mitchell Mason, later president of Dickinson College. Completing his theological course at the seminary, McClelland was ordained as a minister and became pastor of the Rutgers Street Presbyterian Church in New York City in 1815. Here he would remain for seven years until he was offered a professorship at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania under his former teacher Mason.
Appointed in 1821 by the Dickinson College Board of Trustees, McClelland became professor of logic, meta-physics, and belles lettres. Upon Mason's resignation in late spring of 1824, McClelland was offered the position of president at an increased salary; he refused, agreeing to serve pro tempore until a replacement could be found. When the college was investigated by the state senate early in 1828, he was appointed to represent the faculty. When William Neill, Mason's replacement, resigned in 1829, the position of president was again offered to and refused by McClelland, and this time it was he who left, accepting a professorship of languages at Rutgers College in New Brunswick, New Jersey. He remained at Rutgers for the rest of his career, retiring in 1857; during this time, he also taught oriental literature and languages at the Reformed Dutch Theological Seminary in New Brunswick.
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"Conversations on The Science of the Human Mind", by Ezra Stiles Ely, Philadelphia: Printed for the author. Sold by A. Finley. William Fry, printer, 1819. First Edition, First printing with errors pages 81 and 103, and Errata label inside front cover. [Reference: Austin #725. / "Early American Medical Imprints: A Guide to Works Printed in the United States." By Robert B. Austin, National Library of Medicine (U.S.)].
Provenance:
This book is from the library of Rev. Alexander McClelland, Carlisle, PA.
Hard boards, leather [leather aging, a few leather damages on spine, leather creases between spine and boards; rounded corners, shelf wear: see photos]; boards are attached; 4.1/4" x 7.1/4"; "Rev. Alex. McClelland, Carlisle, Pa." is ink written on the front endpaper, 228 pages; some soiling and wear, a few page corner folds, very good condition.
Early American work on cognitive theory and psychology. Ely's "Conversations" is also notable for including one of the earliest printed American quotations from Hume's Treatise of Human Nature. Mark Spencer notes, "Despite his reservations about Hume's philosophy, Ely here accepted Hume's basic premise that all sciences are traced to the science of the human mind." ["Hume's Reception in Early America Expanded Edition" Mark G. Spencer. Bloomsbury Academic 2017]
"The writer of the following pages has endeavoured to exhibit, in a familiar manner, the Elements OF THE Science of the Human Mind. The sources whence he has drawn his doctrines, are his own consciousness, memory, and reflection; and the writings of Locke, Hume, Price, Hartley, Lord Karnes, Reid, Stewart, Duncan, President Edwards, Beattie, Watts, Condillac, and Cogan. What he deems true, and most important in all these celebrated authors, will be found in this compendium. He disclaims all metaphysics but those of common sense.
He flatters himself, that these Conversations will prove beneficial to Students in Law, Medicine, and Divinity, and to the most intelligent young ladies of our country. No science is so intimately connected with all other systematic arrangements of knowledge as that of which he has here treated; and he cannot but hope, therefore, that many who have neither time nor patience to peruse many volumes, will do him the honour of thoroughly examining one. Philadelphia, January 1st, 1819." [Preface. "Conversations on The Science of the Human Mind"]
On June 14, 1819, Ezra Stiles Ely sent a copy of his "Conversations" to Thomas Jefferson. In the letter included with the book he wrote:
"Permit a young Philosopher, to present a veteran with a copy of his "Conversations on the Science of the Human Mind." If you have leisure to read the little book, which I send you through the mail, I hope it will afford you some philosophical recreation. Were you not continually plagued with such things, I should solicit the expression of your opinion upon it.
Possibly it may be of some use, to the already celebrated University, of which you are the father. I am, dear Sir, a Presbyterian, a Calvinist, and a man of common sense: I can, therefore, respect and esteem a literary man, of distinguished talents, & usefulness to his country, however I may differ from him, even in important theological opinions."
On June 25, 1819, Thomas Jefferson responded:
"Your favor Sir, of the 14th has been duly received, and with it the book you were so kind as to forward to me. For this mark of attention be pleased to accept my thanks. the science of the human mind is curious, but it is one on which I have not indulged myself in much speculation. The times in which I have lived, and the scenes in which I have been engaged, have required me to keep the mind too much in action to have leisure to study minutely it's laws of action. I am therefore little qualified to give an opinion on the comparative worth of books on that subject, and little disposed to do it on any book.
Your's has brought the science within a small compass and that is a merit of the 1st order; and especially with one to whom the drudgery of letter writing often denies the leisure of reading a single page in a week. On looking over the summary of the contents of your book, it does not seem likely to bring into collision any of those sectarian differences which you suppose may exist between us. In that branch of religion which regards the moralities of life, and the duties of a social being, which teaches us to love our neighbors as ourselves, and to do good to all men, I am sure that you & I do not differ...
To yourself I pray the acceptance of my great respect.
Th. Jefferson"
[See: founders.archives.gov. documents. Jefferson]
Ezra Stiles Ely (1786-1861) was a minister to the Third Presbyterian (Old Pine Street) Church of Philadelphia and a trustee of Jefferson Medical College. He was instrumental in funding the Jefferson Medical College building that stood from 1828 to 1846 at Tenth and Sansom Streets.
Ezra Stiles Ely was a graduate of Yale (1804) and, when he published his Conversations on the Science of the Human Mind (1819), a Presbyterian minister in Philadelphia. Ely was involved with numerous periodical publications, including the Philadelphian, the Presbyterian Magazine, the Princeton Review, the Quarterly Theological Review, and the Religious Magazine, or Spirit of Foreign Theological Journals and Reviews.Ely moved to New York City in 1810 to serve as chaplain to a hospital and almshouse (later known as Bellevue Hospital). Four years later he was installed as pastor of the Pine Street (or Third) Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia, serving until 1835.
Named a trustee of Jefferson Medical College in 1826, the following year he was instrumental in securing land and erecting a new building crucial to the Philadelphia school’s survival. Ely had become friendly with Andrew Jackson but earned his displeasure in 1829 when he wrote to the president criticizing the recent marriage of Secretary of War John H. Eaton and Margaret O’Neale Timberlake. Ely relayed injurious allegations regarding the young woman that were central to what became known as the Peggy Eaton Affair. In 1835 he moved to Marion County, Missouri, where he invested most of his wealth in a failed missionary attempt to found a Presbyterian city, college, and theological seminary. Ely eventually returned permanently to Philadelphia, where he served as pastor of First Presbyterian Church in the Northern Liberties, 1844-52 (Dexter, Yale Biographies, 5:647-51;)
Provenance:
Alexander McClelland (1794-1864)
Alexander McClelland was born in Schenectady, New York in 1794; not much else is known about his early life. He studied at Union College, graduating at the age of 15. McClelland then began to study theology under Rev. John Anderson of the Associate Presbyterian Church in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He left shortly thereafter, however, to complete his studies at the Theological Seminary of the Associate Reformed Synod of New York. It was at this institution that he first came in contact with Rev. Dr. John Mitchell Mason, later president of Dickinson College. Completing his theological course at the seminary, McClelland was ordained as a minister and became pastor of the Rutgers Street Presbyterian Church in New York City in 1815. Here he would remain for seven years until he was offered a professorship at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania under his former teacher Mason.
Appointed in 1821 by the Dickinson College Board of Trustees, McClelland became professor of logic, meta-physics, and belles lettres. Upon Mason's resignation in late spring of 1824, McClelland was offered the position of president at an increased salary; he refused, agreeing to serve pro tempore until a replacement could be found. When the college was investigated by the state senate early in 1828, he was appointed to represent the faculty. When William Neill, Mason's replacement, resigned in 1829, the position of president was again offered to and refused by McClelland, and this time it was he who left, accepting a professorship of languages at Rutgers College in New Brunswick, New Jersey. He remained at Rutgers for the rest of his career, retiring in 1857; during this time, he also taught oriental literature and languages at the Reformed Dutch Theological Seminary in New Brunswick.
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