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| Title | Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind |
| Author | Dugald Stewart |
| Editor | Francis Bowen |
| Publisher | W.H. Dennet, 1866 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 13 Nov 2007 |
| Length | 490 pages |
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