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THE

ELEMENTS

OF

MORAL SCIENCE.

BY FRANCIS WAYLAND, D. D.,

PRESIDENT OF BROWN UNIVERSITY, AND PROFESSOR OF MORAL PHILOSOPHY.

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HARVARD
UNIVERSITY
LIBRARY
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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1835,

BY FRANCIS WAYLAND,

In the District Clerk's Office of the District Court of Rhode Island.

STEREOTYPED AT THE
BOSTON TYPE AND STEREOTYPE FOUNDRY

PREFACE.

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 his 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 text-book 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

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