The Elements of Moral Science (Classic Reprint)

In presenting to the public a new treatise upon Moral Science, it may not be improper to state the circumstances which led to the undertaking, and the design which it is intended to accomplish. When it became my duty to instruct in Moral Philosophy in Brown University, the text-book in use was the work of Dr. Paley. From many of hb principles I found myself compelled to dissent, and at first I contented myself with stating to my classes my objections to the author, and offering my views, in the form of familiar conversations, upon several of the topics which he discusses. These views, for my own convenience, I soon committed to paper, and delivered in the form of lectures. In a few years these lectures had become so far extended that, to my surprise, they contained by themselves the elements of a different system from that of the textbook which I was teaching. To avoid the inconvenience of teaching two different systems, I undertook to reduce them to order, and to make such additions as would render the work in some measure complete within itself. I thus relinquished the work of Dr. Paley, and for some time have been in the habit of instructing solely by lecture. The success of the attempt exceeded my expectations, and encouraged me to hope that the publication of what I had delivered to my classes might In some small degree facilitate the study of moral science.
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