Excerpt from The North American Review, Vol. 19 Now, though there are not many men capable of origin ating these comprehensive, self inspecting surveys and esti mates, yet, after they are made, there are large numbers who can read them with enjoyment and profit.' It is no small thing to direct a man's attention to himself; yet this is effect ed by the very Sight of a book on the mind. The soul for a moment swells before it with the consciousness of its untried and indefinite powers. The contents of most libraries lead one away from one's self. But take such a work as Cogan on the Passions, - though it is rather a dull book, and the author was not equal to his task, which abler hands might have wrought into a treatise almost unequalled in interest and utility, - we think that any common man, who reads this book, will become wiser, better, greater, and happier, and will particularly be convinced that every one cannot be 'his own intellectual philosopher. Passion, habit, prejudice, wild imagination, unprofitable reverie, wrong directions, and mis taken objects Of thought, all which, by stealing encroachments or violent incursions, may be fast wearing away the charac ter, are liable to be arrested in their progress even by a prosing treatise, which shall subject them to a cool analysis, and make the mind familiar with comprehensive descriptions and classifications of them. 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.