Combining Scottish conjectural history and Platonist metaphysics, this work has been largely ignored to date due to its complexity and unavailability. The first two volumes are concerned with mind and causation whilst the third covers the origin of language (the subject of Monboddo's other major publication). Volumes four and five bear the subtitle "history of man" and the final volume discusses the being and nature of God.
- ISBN10 1855068664
- ISBN13 9781855068667
- Publish Date 15 March 2001
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 11 March 2014
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Imprint Thoemmes Continuum
- Edition Facsimile edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 2730
- Language English