TIE

ANALYSIS

OF

HUMAN NATURE;

OR

AN INVESTIGATION OF THE MEANS

TO IMPROVE THE CONDITION OF THE POOR,

AND TO PROMOTE

THE HAPPINESS OF MANKIND IN GENERAL;

COMPRISING, ALSO,

THE PROGRESS AND PRESENT STATE

OF

POLITICAL, MORAL, AND RELIGIOUS

SOCIETY.

BY S. PHELPS,
AUTHOR OF " A TREATISE ON THE IMPORTANCE OF EXTENDING

THE BRITISH FISHERIES."

London:
PRINTED FOR W. SIMPKIN AND R. MARSHALL, STATIONERS' COURT,

LUDGATE STREET.

1818.

2. Swan, Priuter, 76, Fleet Street, London,

CHAP. IV.

Administration of Government and the Exercise of Power... 211

CHAP. V.

Finance...

309

CHAP. VI.

Colonization and Commerce .........

358

CHAP. VII.

On the Perceptions of Sense, the moral and social Nature of

Man, and the Powers of the human Mind and Intellect

415

CHAP. VIII.

On the Perfectability of Man and the Confirmation of a future

State .......

499