The Physics and Philosophy of the Senses; or, The Mental and the Physical in Their Mutual Relation

London: Henry S. King & Co, 1875. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Edges and front and end matter lightly foxed, pencil name and address on verso of front free endpaper. 1875 Hard Cover. xv, [1], 562, 36 pp. 8vo. Brown cloth, gilt titles, blind-stamped decorations. A philosophical examination of the relationship between mental and physical stimuli, discussing the nature of matter, physical laws, sensory organs and perception, the nervous system, and philosophical properties related to these topics. Wyld examines the thoughts of Plato, the Neo-Platonist School, Scholastics, Descartes, Geulinx, Malebranche, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, and Kant.