The Elements of Ethics (Classic Reprint)

Qlniverdit |:tendion nD anual6 Edited by Professor Knight. EDITORS PREFACE. This Series is primarily designed to aid the University Extension Movenunt throughout Great Britain and America and to supply the need, so widely felt by students, ofT ext-books for study and reference, in connection with the authorised Courses of Lectures. The Manuals differ from these already in existence in that they are not intefuied forS chool use, or forE xamination purposes ;and that their aim is to educate, rather than to inform. The statement of details is meant to illustrate the working of general laws, and the development of principles; while the historical evolution of the subject dealt with is kept in view, along with its philosophical significance The remdrkable success which has attended University Extension in Britain has been partly due to the combination of scientific treatment with popularity, and to the union of simplicity with thoroughness. This movement, however, can only reach those resident in the larger centres of population, while all over the country there are thoughtful persons who desire the same kind of teaching. It is for them also that thisS eries is designed. I ts aim is to supply the general reader with the same kind of teaching as is given in theL ectures, and to reflect the spirit which has characterised the movement, viz.., the combination of principles with facts, and of methods with results. The Manuals are also intettded to be contributions to theL iterature of theS ubjects with which they respectively deal, quite apart from University Extension ;and some of them will be found to meet a general rather than a special want. They will be issued simultaneously in England and A merica. Volumes deeding with separate sections of Literature, Science, Philosophy, History, and Art have been assigned to representative literary men, to University Professor
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